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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert cnt32_to_63 to inline
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:31:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8896.1226442702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081111182759.GA8052@Krystal>

Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> @@ -52,18 +57,22 @@ unsigned long long sched_clock(void)
> ...
> +	preempt_disable_notrace();

Please, no!  sched_clock() is called with preemption or interrupts disabled
everywhere except from some debugging code (lock tracing IIRC).  If you need
to insert this preemption disablement somewhere, please insert it there.  At
least then sched_clock() will be called consistently.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081107052336.652868737@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 01/18] get_cycles() : kconfig HAVE_GET_CYCLES Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 02/18] get_cycles() : x86 HAVE_GET_CYCLES Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 03/18] get_cycles() : sparc64 HAVE_GET_CYCLES Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 04/18] get_cycles() : powerpc64 HAVE_GET_CYCLES Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 14:56   ` Josh Boyer
2008-11-07 18:14     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 05/18] get_cycles() : MIPS HAVE_GET_CYCLES_32 Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 06/18] Trace clock generic Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 07/18] Trace clock core Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:52   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  6:16     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  6:26       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 16:12         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 16:19           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 18:16             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb() Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  6:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  8:12     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07  8:38       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 11:20       ` David Howells
2008-11-07 15:01         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 15:01           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 15:50           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 16:47             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 17:21               ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 20:03                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 20:03                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 16:55             ` David Howells
2008-11-07 16:21           ` David Howells
2008-11-07 16:29             ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 17:10             ` David Howells
2008-11-07 17:26               ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 18:00                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 18:21                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 18:30                     ` Harvey Harrison
2008-11-07 18:42                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 18:33                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 18:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-07 18:45                       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 16:07         ` David Howells
2008-11-07 16:47         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:11           ` Russell King
2008-11-07 20:11             ` Russell King
2008-11-07 21:36             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 21:36               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 22:18               ` Russell King
2008-11-07 22:18                 ` Russell King
2008-11-07 22:36                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 22:36                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 23:41               ` David Howells
2008-11-08  0:15                 ` Russell King
2008-11-08  0:15                   ` Russell King
2008-11-08 15:24                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-08 23:20                     ` [PATCH] clarify usage expectations for cnt32_to_63() Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-09  2:25                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-09  2:54                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-09  5:06                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-09  5:27                             ` [PATCH v2] " Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-09  6:48                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-09 13:34                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-09 13:43                                   ` Russell King
2008-11-09 13:43                                     ` Russell King
2008-11-09 16:22                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-10  4:20                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-10  4:42                                       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-10 21:34                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-10 21:58                                           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-10 23:15                                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-10 23:15                                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-10 23:22                                               ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-10 23:38                                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-11  0:26                                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-11 18:28                                                   ` [PATCH] convert cnt32_to_63 to inline Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 19:13                                                     ` Russell King
2008-11-11 19:13                                                       ` Russell King
2008-11-11 20:11                                                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 20:11                                                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 21:51                                                         ` Russell King
2008-11-11 21:51                                                           ` Russell King
2008-11-12  3:48                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-12  3:48                                                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 21:00                                                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-11 21:13                                                       ` Russell King
2008-11-11 21:13                                                         ` Russell King
2008-11-11 22:31                                                   ` David Howells [this message]
2008-11-11 22:37                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-12  1:13                                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-08  0:45                 ` [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb() David Howells
2008-11-07 17:04         ` David Howells
2008-11-07 17:17           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 23:27           ` David Howells
2008-11-07 11:03     ` David Howells
2008-11-07 11:03       ` David Howells
2008-11-07 16:51       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:18         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 23:55         ` David Howells
2008-11-07 10:59   ` David Howells
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 09/18] Powerpc : Trace clock Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 10/18] Sparc64 " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:45   ` David Miller
2008-11-07 10:55 ` [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb() David Howells
2008-11-07 17:09   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 17:33     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-07 17:33       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-07 19:18       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 19:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-07 20:02           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:45             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:54               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-11-07 21:04                 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-08  0:34                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-11-07 21:16                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:08     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-07 20:55       ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-11-07 21:27       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 20:36     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 20:55       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 21:22         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 23:50     ` David Howells
2008-11-08  0:55       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-09 11:51       ` David Howells
2008-11-09 14:31         ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-09 14:31           ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-09 16:18         ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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