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[PATCH 0 of 4] Xen spinlock updates and performance measurements

From:  Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject:  [PATCH 0 of 4] Xen spinlock updates and performance measurements
Date:  Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:17 -0700
Message-ID:  <patchbomb.1219276937@localhost>
Cc:  xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Hi Ingo,

This series has some updates to Xen's spinlock implementation,
including adding a set of performance measurements in debugfs.

The series consists of:
 - correctly deal with a spinlock in an interrupt handler interrupting
   another spinlock spinning on a lock. [2.6.27 bugfix]
 - Add Xen debugfs support, including performance metrics for
   spinlocks, multicalls and mmu operations.
 - Allow interrupts to be enabled while spinning (blocking) for a lock
 - Measure time spinlocks spend blocked

Thanks,
	J

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