* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This code is very much tied with the kernel scheduler. [...]
>
> It would not be particularly complex to enable user-space to
> request a callback on context switch events.
>
> I was thinking on and off about allowing perf events to generate a
> per sampling event notification signal on specific events, such as
> page faults or context switches.
I was thinking about that on and off so loudly that Peter implemented
it long ago via fasync support on the perf event fd! :-)
So if you set a notification signal via fcntl(F_SETOWN) on the
scheduler context switch event fd, the user-space RCU code will get a
signal on every context switch.
I have not tried it for this purpose yet, so let us know if there are
unexpected complications :)
Thanks,
Ingo
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