Re: [PATCH 3/5] sched: Rename vtime fields

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 19:02:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>