2012/12/10 Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> 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. ;-)
Right :-)
Andrew strongly suggested us to give some more description of that
thing and the role and semantics of the new APIs. I indeed overlooked
that part. I'll send a patch soon.
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