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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk,
	John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in fallback sched_clock().
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:13:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243527218.28705.35.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243515570.6600.96.camel@laptop>

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:59 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 
> 
> CPU0                           CPU1
> 
> clock = ACCESS_ONCE(sched_clocksource);
> 
>                                unload module
>                                  clocksource_unregister()
>                                    sched_clocksource = jiffies
>                                  unmap data/text
> 
> cyc2ns(clock, clocksource_read(clock)) <--- fireworks
> 
> 

Do any module based clocksources even exist right now?
clocksource_unregister only seems to be used 3 times..

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26  6:15 [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in fallback sched_clock() Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 14:31 ` Linus Walleij
2009-05-26 14:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-26 20:17     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 23:08       ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 23:13         ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 23:25         ` john stultz
2009-05-26 23:44           ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-27  0:18             ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27  0:22             ` john stultz
2009-05-27  0:26               ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-27  1:09                 ` john stultz
2009-05-27  0:27               ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 23:49         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27  0:15           ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-27 16:25             ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28  8:44               ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28  9:19               ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28  9:34                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 11:09                   ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 12:22                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-28 12:40                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 12:42                       ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 12:53                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-28 12:59                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 13:20                           ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 16:13                           ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-05-28 16:32                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 16:40                               ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 16:52                                 ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28 16:58                                   ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 17:38                                     ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28 17:46                                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-28 17:53                                       ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 18:10                                         ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28 18:27                                           ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 19:04                                             ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28 19:34                                               ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 19:41                                                 ` Daniel Walker
2009-05-28 23:37                                                   ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-28 18:44                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-28 17:00                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-28 17:07                                 ` John Stultz
2009-05-26 20:23     ` john stultz
2009-05-26 20:30       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-26 20:40         ` john stultz
2009-05-26 20:55           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-26 23:00             ` john stultz
2009-05-26 23:24               ` Mangalampalli, JayantX
2009-05-27  0:04                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 23:39               ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-27  6:58               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-26 20:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-05-26 14:43   ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 14:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-26 14:53       ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 15:02   ` Matthieu CASTET

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