Re: Process events: Fix biarch compatibility

From: Matt Helsley
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 19:21:42 EST


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Helsley <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew, I'd like to revise my request and shoot for eventual inclusion
> > in 2.6.18 if it's not too much to ask. What do you think?
>
> I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

I'm referring only to the biarch compatability fix for process events.
It happens to tangle with but is not dependent upon task watchers. So
it's not really in the list below.

> The per-task-delay-accounting patches I'd like to get into 2.6.18, yes.
> We've been dicking around for *years* with enhanced system accounting
> requirements and we now seem to have a roughly-agreed-upon way of doing
> that. I think we just need to get it in there and get people using it for
> their various accounting needs. I was planning on getting all this into
> -rc1 but then we got derailed by the 1000-cpus-doing-1000-exits-per-second
> problem.
>
> The task-watchers patches I really like - it fixes the problem of more and
> more subsystems adding their little own little hooks all into the same
> places. But I think it's much less urgent than per-task-delay-accounting
> and, given that (afaik) we haven't yet resolved whether task-watchers will
> use a single notifier chain or one per event, I'm inclined to hold that
> back until 2.6.19.

Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley

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