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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] x86/intel_rdt: Check monitor group vs control group membership earlier
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Hi Valentin,

On 18/11/2020 18:00, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> A task can only be moved between monitor groups if both groups belong to
> the same control group. This is checked fairly late however: by that time
> we already have appended a task_work() callback.

(is that a problem? It's needed to do the kfree())


> Check the validity of the move before getting anywhere near task_work
> callbacks.

This saves the kzalloc()/task_work_add() if it wasn't going to be necessary.

Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>


Thanks,

James

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