Re: "RT_PREEMPT for loongson" is updated to patch-2.6.29.1-rt8

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:01:55AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > I have divided ftrace to several commits in the above git tree, hope you
> > can check it, thx :-) 
> > 
> > in addition to the static/dynamic/graph function tracer & system call
> > tracer implementation, a mips specific ring_buffer_time_stamp
> > (kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c) is also implemented to get 1us precision
> > time, this is very important to make ftrace available in mips,
> > otherwise, we can only get 1ms precision time for the original
> > ring_buffer_time_stamp is based on sched_clock(jiffies based). 
> > 
> > perhaps we can implement a more precise sched_clock directly, just as
> > x86 does(native_sched_clock, tsc based), but in mips, there is only a
> > 32bit timer count which will quickly overflow, so it will need an extra
> > overflow protection, which may influence the other parts of the kernel.
> 
> My git clone is still running to I'm commenting only on the patches you
> posted earlier.  #ifdef-MIPS'ing things into the generic kernel code
> definately won't be an acceptable way to get µs resolution.

In changeset e67f78d663a84ef93aa12c3c8c1adf3033c4f9a1 you introduce
<asm/rwsem.h> but because RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is always set that file
won't ever be included.

  Ralf