On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:37:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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.
And it does appear that Frederic and I have a bit more explaining to do. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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