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Remove from guest code the handling of task migration during a

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pvclock read; instead use the correct protocol in KVM.
 
 This removes the need for task migration notifiers in core
 scheduler code.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Remove from guest code the handling of task migration during a pvclock
  read; instead use the correct protocol in KVM.

  This removes the need for task migration notifiers in core scheduler
  code"

[ The scheduler people really hated the migration notifiers, so this was
  kind of required  - Linus ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
  kvm: x86: fix kvmclock update protocol
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Linus Torvalds 2015-04-30 09:44:04 -07:00
commit 9dbbe3cfc3
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@ -175,14 +175,6 @@ extern void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load);
extern void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks);
extern void update_cpu_load_nohz(void);
/* Notifier for when a task gets migrated to a new CPU */
struct task_migration_notifier {
struct task_struct *task;
int from_cpu;
int to_cpu;
};
extern void register_task_migration_notifier(struct notifier_block *n);
extern unsigned long get_parent_ip(unsigned long addr);
extern void dump_cpu_task(int cpu);