Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/delay: Do not use cpu_tss in preemptible ctxt in delay_mwaitx()

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mar 9, 2016 3:38 AM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
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> So Andy had a good idea about using a cacheline-aligned, seldomly used
> per-cpu var as the MONITORX target but we can't use it in preemptible
> context. The first simple idea I have is to disable preemption around us
> dereffing it.

What's the actual problem?  Is it the preempt warnings and, if so,
would raw_cpu_ptr fix it?

It may pay to move it into the loop, though.

--Andy