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

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:43:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 14:28 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 06:14:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > So we probably need to generalize a bit more. Some naming based on
> > "code domain"?
> > 
> > struct code_domain {
> > 	int is_tracking;
> > 	enum {
> > 		in_kernel,
> > 		in_user,
> > 		in_guest
> > 	} state;
> > }
> 
> Is there a fundamental difference between 'in_user' and 'in_guest'
> though?

Probably not from RCU POV. But the cputime is not accounted the same.
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