Re: [PATCH v4.1 01/15] stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces

2017-02-02 Thread Miroslav Benes
On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > For live patching and possibly other use cases, a stack trace is only > useful if it can be assured that it's completely reliable. Add a new > save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function to achieve that. > > Note that if the target task isn't the current

[PATCH v4.1 01/15] stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces

2017-02-01 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
For live patching and possibly other use cases, a stack trace is only useful if it can be assured that it's completely reliable. Add a new save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function to achieve that. Note that if the target task isn't the current task, and the target task is allowed to run, then it