[PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism
This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to
notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This allows the
task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT
registers.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 7c61b50..7a4de87 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -935,6 +935,11 @@
struct sched_class *sched_class;
struct sched_entity se;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
+ /* list of struct preempt_notifier: */
+ struct hlist_head preempt_notifiers;
+#endif
+
unsigned short ioprio;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
unsigned int btrace_seq;