From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock()
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:59:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B316B66.2020206@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261470234.4937.1.camel@laptop>
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 13:17 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>
>> Looking into sched_clock.c, seems the only place that can trigger lockdep
>> is the local_irq_* in cpu_clock(), though I'm not sure for architecture-
>> specific sched_clock().
>
> But why would you want to do that? that reduces the lockdep coverage for
> no good reason, just fix up the tracer.
>
Then the proper fix is to use local_irq_* in global_clock(), which
is what this patch does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-23 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 6:27 [PATCH] tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock() Li Zefan
2009-12-21 6:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-21 7:36 ` Li Zefan
2009-12-21 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-21 15:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-12-22 5:17 ` Li Zefan
2009-12-22 6:16 ` Yong Zhang
2009-12-22 8:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 0:59 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-12-21 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
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