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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: drop irq-context clocksource polling
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:50:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175979019.28263.523.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175967839.15973.156.camel@imap.mvista.com>

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:43 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> Looks like this path ,
> 
> arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c: time_cpufreq_notifier(); <-- takes xtime_lock
> 			 mark_tsc_unstable();
>             		  clocksource_change_rating(&clocksource_tsc, 0);
> 			   timekeeping_change_clocksource(); <-- takes xtime_lock
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why the time_cpufreq_notifier is taking the xtime_lock tho .

Simply because it fiddles with variables which are relevant for
timekeeping.

	tglx


	

	


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-07 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05 21:03 [PATCH] timekeeping: drop irq-context clocksource polling Daniel Walker
2007-04-05 21:25 ` john stultz
2007-04-05 21:29   ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-05 21:38     ` john stultz
2007-04-05 21:36   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 21:50     ` john stultz
2007-04-07  1:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-07  2:04   ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-07 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-07 17:43   ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-07 20:50     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-04-07 21:30       ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-08  8:33         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-08 20:02           ` Daniel Walker

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