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Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a task has been preempted

From Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a task has been preempted
Date 2016-04-06 18:40 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 03:06:19PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2016-03-25 14:34:52, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > This is a horrible way to detect whether a task has been preempted.
> > Come up with something better: task flag?  or is there already an
> > existing mechanism?
> 
> What about using kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() to check the address.
> It is more heavyweight but less hacky. The following code seems
> to work for me:
> 
> bool in_preempt_schedule_irq(unsigned long addr)
> {
> 	static unsigned long size;
> 
> 	if (unlikely(!size)) {
> 		int ret;
> 
> 		ret = kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(
> 				(unsigned long)preempt_schedule_irq,
> 				size, NULL);
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * Warn when the function is used without kallsyms or
> 		 * when it is unable to locate preempt_schedule_irq().
> 		 * Be conservative and always return true in this case.
> 		 */
> 		if (WARN_ON(!ret))
> 			size = -1L;
> 	}
> 
> 	return (addr - (unsigned long)preempt_schedule_irq <= size);
> }

Yeah, that would definitely be better.  Though still somewhat hacky.

-- 
Josh

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Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-04-06 15:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-06 18:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-04-07 11:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-07 16:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-04-08 10:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH v1.9 05/14] sched: horrible way to detect whether a  task has been preempted Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-08 16:40 +0200

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