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Update a task's patch state when returning from a system call or user space interrupt, or after handling a signal. This greatly increases the chances of a patch operation succeeding. If a task is I/O bound, it can be patched when returning from a system call. If a task is CPU bound, it can be patched when returning from an interrupt. If a task is sleeping on a to-be-patched function, the user can send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to force it to switch. Since there are two ways the syscall can be restarted on return from a signal handling process, it is important to clear the flag before do_signal() is called. Otherwise we could miss the migration if we used SIGSTOP/SIGCONT procedure or fake signal to migrate patching blocking tasks. If we place our hook to sysc_work label in entry before TIF_SIGPENDING is evaluated we kill two birds with one stone. The task is correctly migrated in all return paths from a syscall. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.