From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux-Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:23:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250680993.7583.350.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c384c5ea0908190416r4e0b5508x4765381888516484@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:16 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Alan Cox<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:38:06 +0100
> >
> > in drivers because there is driver code that uses spin_is_locked() in
> > fairly sensible fashion when dealing with locking.
> >
> One use is to measure lock contention hits on a particular spin lock.
>
>
> However I wonder if there are tracing capabilities to measure lock
> contention on a particular lock?
lock_stat no good for you?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 22:09 spin_is_locked() broken for uniprocessor? Kumar Gala
2009-08-18 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-19 9:38 ` David Howells
2009-08-19 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-27 9:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-19 10:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-19 11:16 ` Leon Woestenberg
2009-08-19 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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