Re: [patch 2/2] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault

[Andi Kleen]

> Well, it seems like all the kernel code calling "vmalloc_sync_all()" (which is
> much more than perf) can potentially cause large latencies, which could be

You need to fix all other code too that walks tasks lists to avoid all those.

% gid for_each_process | wc -l

In fact the mm-struct walk is cheaper than a task-list walk because there
are always less than tasks.

-Andi
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