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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	mingo@elte.hu, 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 23:37:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226443050.6696.12.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8896.1226442702@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:31 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. You could do a WARN_ON(!in_atomic); in sched_clock() depending
on DEBUG_PREEMPT or something to ensure this.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07  5:23 [RFC patch 00/18] Trace Clock v2 Mathieu Desnoyers
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 15:50             ` Andrew Morton
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 16:47               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 16:55                 ` David Howells
2008-11-07 17:21                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 20:03                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-07 16:07             ` David Howells
2008-11-07 16:47           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 17:04             ` David Howells
2008-11-07 17:17               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 23:27                 ` David Howells
2008-11-07 20:11             ` Russell King
2008-11-07 21:36               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 22:18                 ` Russell King
2008-11-07 22:36                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 23:41                   ` David Howells
2008-11-08  0:15                     ` Russell King
2008-11-08  0:45                       ` David Howells
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 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 23:22                                                   ` 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 20:11                                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 21:51                                                             ` Russell King
2008-11-12  3:48                                                               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-11 21:00                                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-11 21:13                                                           ` Russell King
2008-11-11 22:31                                                         ` David Howells
2008-11-11 22:37                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-11-12  1:13                                                             ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-07 11:03       ` [RFC patch 08/18] cnt32_to_63 should use smp_rmb() 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 10:55   ` David Howells
2008-11-07 17:09     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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 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 16:18               ` 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  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  5:23 ` [RFC patch 11/18] LTTng timestamp sh Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 12/18] LTTng - TSC synchronicity test Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 13/18] x86 : remove arch-specific tsc_sync.c Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 14/18] MIPS use tsc_sync.c Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 15/18] MIPS : export hpt frequency for trace_clock Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 16/18] MIPS create empty sync_core() Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 17/18] MIPS : Trace clock Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07 11:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-07 17:44     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-11-07  5:23 ` [RFC patch 18/18] x86 trace clock Mathieu Desnoyers

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