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Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 21:23:52 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing
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I wrote:

> Ah! We need to reload task inside the loop.  And possibly in other
> places.

I think at this point we need a pin_ctx function like Peter
suggested.  It will make it much simpler to fix this.  I'll hack
something up (if no-one beats me to it :).

Paul.