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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [BELATED CORE TOPIC] context tracking / nohz
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> This is a bit late, but here goes anyway.
>
> Having played with the x86 context tracking hooks for awhile, I think
> it would be nice if core code that needs to be aware of CPU context
> (kernel, user, idle, guest, etc) could come up with single,
> comprehensible, easily validated set of hooks that arch code is
> supposed to call.

Having worked on both the arm and arm64 implementations of context
tracking, I'm interested in this as well.

Kevin