On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 16:59 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:33:25PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries > > to keep track of the transitions between level contexts > > with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel. > > > > This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking > > to implement its userspace extended quiescent state. > > > > We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection > > because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on > > demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to > > shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime. > > I have queued this, and if it passes tests and inspection will try > pushing it for 3.8. >
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