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SubjectRe: [PATCH tracing/kprobes] kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
* Masami Hiramatsu (mhiramat@redhat.com) wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, because it can't ensure that
> >> all kernel threads preempted on kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot
> >> even using freeze_processes().
> >
> > hm, this really sucks as it makes preemptible kernels perform worse. Is there
> > no better solution?
> >
> >> The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if synchronize_tasks() or
> >> something like that is introduced.
> >
> > such as this one?
>
> Yes, I think this synchronize_tasks(), which just (sleeping) wait until
> all currently preempted tasks are wake up and scheduled, can ensure safety

If a task is set as stopped, and the preempted before calling schedule,
can this result in a preempted task staying in that state for an
arbitrary long period of time ? Or is there some mechanism prohibiting
that in the scheduler ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu
>
> Software Engineer
> Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
> Software Solutions Division
>
> e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
>

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