On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 21:45 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Create a new subsystem that handles the probing on kernel > > boundaries to keep track of the transitions between code > > domains with two basic initial domains: user or kernel. > > To do a bit more bike shed painting, I'd call it "context > tracking" - user mode, kernel mode (guest mode, etc.). > > The term 'code domain' would bring up blank stares from most > kernel developers, me thinks.
Heh, that would be a second new term I heard this week for context. Earlier, I noticed that Paul McKenney called it 'levels'. So now there's four names: user/kernel context user/kernel state user/kernel level user/kernel domain And we could probably add a fifth: user/kernel mode ;-) -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
