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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-01 10:43:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-01 10:43:39 -0700
commit0b981cb94bc63a2d0e5eccccdca75fe57643ffce (patch)
tree966ad6e6807fd1041d9962c9904e032a5ab07a65 /Documentation
parent4cba3335826cbb36a218c3f5a1387e2c7c7ca9aa (diff)
parentfdf9c356502ae02238efcdf90cefd7b473a63fd4 (diff)
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features. Other than that, smallish changes." Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer() sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance() sched: Remove useless code in yield_to() sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch sched: Move cputime code to its own file cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt
index 28aa1075e29..b1b8587b86f 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.txt
@@ -17,16 +17,6 @@ you must `#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW` in a header file
Unlocked context switches introduce only a very minor performance
penalty to the core scheduler implementation in the CONFIG_SMP case.
-2. Interrupt status
-By default, the switch_to arch function is called with interrupts
-disabled. Interrupts may be enabled over the call if it is likely to
-introduce a significant interrupt latency by adding the line
-`#define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW` in the same place as for
-unlocked context switches. This define also implies
-`__ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW`. See arch/arm/include/asm/system.h for an
-example.
-
-
CPU idle
========
Your cpu_idle routines need to obey the following rules: