linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] context tracking updates for 3.10

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Date:	Thu,  7 Mar 2013 19:50:01 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@...a.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] context tracking updates for 3.10

Ingo,

Please pull the latest context tracking and cputime updates that can be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
	sched/cputime

HEAD is 8b43876643a737bb74a0e1e557f634eb2453948b (in case you still get the
cache of the previous branch there).

Thanks.

---
Changes include:

* Generalize exception handling

* Fix race in context tracking state restore on return from exception
and irq exit kernel preemption

* Fix cputime scaling in full dynticks accounting dynamic off-case

* Fix default Kconfig value

---
Frederic Weisbecker (5):
  context_tracking: Move exception handling to generic code
  context_tracking: Restore correct previous context state on exception
    exit
  context_tracking: Restore preempted context state after
    preempt_schedule_irq()
  cputime: Dynamically scale cputime for full dynticks accounting
  context_tracking: Enable probes by default for selftesting

 arch/x86/include/asm/context_tracking.h |   21 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                   |    8 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                 |   68 +++++++++-----
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c                     |    8 +-
 include/linux/context_tracking.h        |   24 +++++-
 include/linux/sched.h                   |    4 +-
 init/Kconfig                            |    1 +
 kernel/fork.c                           |    2 +-
 kernel/sched/core.c                     |    6 +-
 kernel/sched/cputime.c                  |  154 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 10 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)

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1.7.5.4

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