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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/include/asm/context_tracking.h, branch master</title>
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<title>x86/entry: Remove SCHEDULE_USER and asm/context-tracking.h</title>
<updated>2015-07-07T08:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2015-07-03T19:44:33+00:00</published>
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SCHEDULE_USER is no longer used, and asm/context-tracking.h
contained nothing else.  Remove the header entirely.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/854e9b45f69af20e26c47099eb236321563ebcee.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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SCHEDULE_USER is no longer used, and asm/context-tracking.h
contained nothing else.  Remove the header entirely.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;vda.linux@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/854e9b45f69af20e26c47099eb236321563ebcee.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic code</title>
<updated>2013-03-07T16:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T23:23:25+00:00</published>
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Exceptions handling on context tracking should share common
treatment: on entry we exit user mode if the exception triggered
in that context. Then on exception exit we return to that previous
context.

Generalize this to avoid duplication across archs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mats Liljegren &lt;mats.liljegren@enea.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Exceptions handling on context tracking should share common
treatment: on entry we exit user mode if the exception triggered
in that context. Then on exception exit we return to that previous
context.

Generalize this to avoid duplication across archs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mats Liljegren &lt;mats.liljegren@enea.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem</title>
<updated>2012-11-30T19:40:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-27T18:33:25+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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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 &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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