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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: andrea@cpushare.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] TIF_NOTSC and SECCOMP prctl
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* andrea@cpushare.com <andrea@cpushare.com> wrote:

> Here a repost of the last seccomp patch against current mainline 
> including the preempt fix. This changes the seccomp API from 
> /proc/<pid>/seccomp to a prctl (this will produce a smaller kernel) 
> and it adds a TIF_NOTSC that seccomp sets. Only the current task can 
> call disable_TSC (obviously because it hasn't a task_t param). This 
> includes Chuck's patch to give zero runtime cost to the notsc feature.

please send a patch-queue that is properly split-up: the bugfix, the API 
change and the TIF_NOTSC improvement.

	Ingo