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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] code_domain: New code domain tracking susbsystem
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On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 21:45 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Create a new subsystem that handles the probing on kernel
> > boundaries to keep track of the transitions between code
> > domains with two basic initial domains: user or kernel.
>
> To do a bit more bike shed painting, I'd call it "context
> tracking" - user mode, kernel mode (guest mode, etc.).
>
> The term 'code domain' would bring up blank stares from most
> kernel developers, me thinks.

Heh, that would be a second new term I heard this week for context.
Earlier, I noticed that Paul McKenney called it 'levels'. So now there's
four names:

user/kernel context
user/kernel state
user/kernel level
user/kernel domain

And we could probably add a fifth:

user/kernel mode

;-)

-- Steve




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