Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: add sched_task_call()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > How about with a TIF_IN_USERSPACE thread flag?  It could be cleared/set
> > right at the border.  Then for running tasks it's as simple as:
> > 
> > if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_IN_USERSPACE))
> > 	klp_switch_task_universe(task);
> 
> That's in principle what CONTEXT_TRACKING is doing, i.e. the condition 
> we'd be interested in would be
> 
> 	__this_cpu_read(context_tracking.state) == IN_USER

Well, more precisely

	per_cpu(context_tracking.state, cpu) == IN_USER

of course.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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