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Commit d9345c65 authored by Pan Xinhui's avatar Pan Xinhui Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface



This patch is the first step to add support to improve lock holder
preemption beaviour.

vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) does the obvious thing: it tells us whether a
vCPU is preempted or not.

Defaults to false on architectures that don't support it.

Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Translated the changelog to English. ]
Acked-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-2-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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