linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] user_hooks: New user hooks subsystem

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Message-ID: <1343751262.20897.29.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:14:22 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>,
	Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] user_hooks: New user hooks subsystem

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 16:57 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 'callback', while a longer word, is almost always used as a noun 
> within the kernel - and it also has a pretty narrow meaning. 

An altogether different naming would be something like:

struct user_kernel_tracking {
	int want_uk_tracking;
	enum {
		in_kernel = 0,
		in_user,
	} uk_state;
};


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