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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2009-09-19 09:40:22 +0300
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-10-01 12:12:18 -0700
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core, x86: Add user return notifiers
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is about to return to userspace. The notifier uses a thread_info flag and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context switch fast paths. This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily updating MSRs. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 7f418bbc261a..4e312fffbfd7 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ config KRETPROBES
def_bool y
depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
+config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
+ bool
+ depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
+ help
+ Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
+ switch to user mode.
+
config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
bool
@@ -126,4 +133,7 @@ config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
bool
+config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
+ bool
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"