Re: [patch v12 09/13] task isolation: add preempt notifier to sync per-CPU vmstat dirty info to thread info

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Apr 27 2022 - 03:11:54 EST


On Tue, Mar 15 2022 at 12:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> If a thread has task isolation activated, is preempted by thread B,
> which marks vmstat information dirty, and is preempted back in,
> one might return to userspace with vmstat dirty information on the
> CPU in question.
>
> To address this problem, add a preempt notifier that transfers vmstat dirty
> information to TIF_TASK_ISOL thread flag.

How does this compile with CONFIG_KVM=n?

Thanks,

tglx