Re: [PATCH] to fix xtime lock for in the RT kernel patch

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:

> > how about the patch below? One of the important benefits of the 
> > threaded timer IRQ is the ability to make xtime_lock a mutex.
> 
> The problem is that that removes the
> 	cur_timer->mark_offset();
> 	do_timer(regs);
> in time. [...]

i'm not sure i understand what you mean. My change does:

| @@ -294,6 +313,7 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, voi
|         write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
|
|         cur_timer->mark_offset();
| +       do_timer(regs);
|
|         do_timer_interrupt(irq, NULL, regs);

so ->mark_offset and do_timer() go together, and happen under
xtime_lock. What problem is there if we do this?

	Ingo