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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Rename vtime fields
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On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 19:15 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The current "snapshot" based naming on vtime fields suggests we
> record
> some past event but that's a low level picture of their actual
> purpose
> which comes out blurry. The real point of these fields is to run a
> basic
> state machine that tracks down cputime entry while switching between
> contexts.
>
> So lets reflect that with more meaningful names.
>
> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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