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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] code_domain: New code domain tracking susbsystem
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 21:45:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120803194536.GA2974@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344006145-26115-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Create a new subsystem that handles the probing on kernel 
> boundaries to keep track of the transitions between code 
> domains with two basic initial domains: user or kernel.

To do a bit more bike shed painting, I'd call it "context 
tracking" - user mode, kernel mode (guest mode, etc.).

The term 'code domain' would bring up blank stares from most 
kernel developers, me thinks.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 15:02 [RFC PATCH 0/5] cputime: Generic virtual based cputime accounting v2 Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] code_domain: New code domain tracking susbsystem Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 18:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-03 19:45   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-08-03 20:09     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-08-03 20:31       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-03 21:04         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] cputime: Don't allow virtual and irq finegrained cputime accounting simultaneously Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] cputime: Rename account_system_vtime to account_vtime Frederic Weisbecker
2012-08-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting Frederic Weisbecker

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