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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:43 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:50:38PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
> You can add my Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> if you
> like.

Very happy to do so!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul