On 10/14/2011 02:39 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-10-14 14:34, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
On 10/14/2011 01:12 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
The following changes since commit 641d8e87531c6367a6357335378194ea06a23701:

   ipipe: Prevent unwritable pages after mprotect (2011-07-21 09:51:56 +0200)

are available in the git repository at:
   git://git.kiszka.org/ipipe queues/2.6.38-noarch

Jan Kiszka (1):
       ipipe: Re-add root preemption notifier

  include/linux/ipipe.h      |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  include/linux/ipipe_base.h |    2 +-
  kernel/ipipe/core.c        |    6 ++++++
  3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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ipipe: Re-add root preemption notifier

Restore the original root preemption notifiers, once added for 2.6.35
but then lost again on 2.6.36 merge. Unfortunately, the feature flag was
not lost. So it became meaningless and we have to rename it to
__IPIPE_FEATURE_ROOTPREEMPT_NOTIFIER.

The I-pipe defines a generic infrastructure for events, why bypassing it?


Because
  - this is no kernel-to-ipipe event, but an ipipe-to-kernel (kvm) one
  - there is no relation to domains here
  - there is no relation to a shadow task here (the event is fired over
    a pure Linux task)

Jan


IIUC, this is a primary domain to KVM event, at least the way the Xenomai nucleus is supposed to trigger it, so we could have used a pipeline event hooked by the head domain as Gilles suggested. This said, there is no event propagation or domain migration to handle here, so this would likely be overkill.

I've picked both patches (Xenomai + pipeline) in my queue for 2.6.1 and 2.6.38.8/x86. I'm not that happy with adding yet another per-cpu global variable to hold information the pipeline does not really care about (it's just a conveyor here), but as I'm refactoring the pipeline core, I'll work with you for a better integration if we can find one.

Thanks,

--
Philippe.

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