* Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello, Ingo,
>
> Could you please pull one more commit? This is an update to Frederic
> Weisbecker's context-tracking subsystem that is another stepping stone
> towards adaptive-idle and tickless userspace execution. This has been
> subjected to -next testing. It does give two checkpatch.pl errors,
> but these are on cpp macro definitions used within assembly code -- and
> following checkpatch.pl's suggestions would result in assembler errors.
> (I have reported this to Andy Whitcroft, checkpatch.pl's maintainer.)
>
> These changes are available in the git repository at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/next
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ---------------->
> Frederic Weisbecker (1):
> context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
>
> arch/Kconfig | 15 ++--
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/{rcu.h => context_tracking.h} | 15 ++--
> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 5 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/context_tracking.h | 18 ++++
> include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 -
> init/Kconfig | 28 ++++----
> kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> kernel/context_tracking.c | 83
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/rcutree.c | 64 +---------------
> kernel/sched/core.c | 11 ++-
> 15 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
> rename arch/x86/include/asm/{rcu.h => context_tracking.h} (63%)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/context_tracking.h
> create mode 100644 kernel/context_tracking.c
Pulled it and pushed it out earlier this week.
One issue I wanted to raise on a bit wider forum was the
introduction of the (small) kernel/context_tracking.c subsystem.
It makes sense to me, but I've Cc:-ed Linus and Andrew, in case
they have a different opinion.
Thanks,
Ingo
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