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Message-ID: <20160623185556.GQ30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:55:56 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,
 core)

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:12:16PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> And probably kill task_struct->blocked_on? I do not see the point of
> this task->blocked_on != waiter check.

I think that came about because of PI and or deadlock detection. Of
course, the current mutex code doesn't have anything like that these
days, and rt_mutex has task_struct::pi_blocked_on.

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