Re: [PATCH] RFC x86_64 more accurate KSTK_ESP implementation

From: Stefani Seibold
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 09:00:56 EST


Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 13:55 +0100 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> * Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I'd suggest a competely different method: why dont you use an IPI to
> > > sample the SP whenever someone wants to read it from /proc and we
> > > see that the task is running on a CPU right now?
> >
> > Sounds like a challenge, i like the idea. I will have a look on it...
>
> It's not a fastpath, so smp_function_call() ought to do the trick.
>
> Ingo

There is no function smp_function_call()...

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