Re: posix-cpu-timers revamp

[Frank Mayhar]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 19:07 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The first thing to do is move the existing summation of utime, stime, and
> sum_exec_runtime in __exit_signal into an inline thread_group_cputime_exit.
> That abstracts it into the set of inlines that can vary for the different
> flavors of storage model.  For UP, it does nothing.

One quick note:  this inline isn't needed for the 2b solution (allocate
percpu storage in copy_signal CLONE_THREAD case), since if there's more
than one thread there'll always be a percpu area and if there's only one
thread the summation code won't be entered.
-- 
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Google, Inc.

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