Q: does force_iret() make any sense today?

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 10:31:24 EST


I do not pretend I understand the arch/x86/entry/ code, but it seems that
asm does all the necessary checks and the "extra" TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME simply
has no effect except tracehook_notify_resume() will be called for no reason?

Oleg.