Re: [PATCH] TIF_NOTSC and SECCOMP prctl

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 26 2006 - 04:15:26 EST



* andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here a repost of the last seccomp patch against current mainline
> including the preempt fix. This changes the seccomp API from
> /proc/<pid>/seccomp to a prctl (this will produce a smaller kernel)
> and it adds a TIF_NOTSC that seccomp sets. Only the current task can
> call disable_TSC (obviously because it hasn't a task_t param). This
> includes Chuck's patch to give zero runtime cost to the notsc feature.

please send a patch-queue that is properly split-up: the bugfix, the API
change and the TIF_NOTSC improvement.

Ingo
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