From 91d1aa43d30505b0b825db8898ffc80a8eca96c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:33:25 +0100 Subject: context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem 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. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt [ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- arch/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 366ec06a5185..cc74aaea116c 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -300,15 +300,16 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details. -config HAVE_RCU_USER_QS +config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING bool help - Provide kernel entry/exit hooks necessary for userspace - RCU extended quiescent state. Syscalls need to be wrapped inside - rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() through the slow path using - TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be wrapped as well. Irqs - are already protected inside rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but - preemption or signal handling on irq exit still need to be protected. + Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems + that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state. + Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through + the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be + wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside + rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on + irq exit still need to be protected. config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING bool -- cgit v1.2.3