From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] time: Rework debugging variables so they aren't global
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:14:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150521061408.GA11077@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432142376-2077-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>
* John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> Ingo suggested that the timekeeping debugging variables
> recently added should not be global, and should be tied
> to the timekeeper's read_base.
>
> Thus this patch implements that suggestion.
>
> This version is differnet from the earlier versions
s/differnet/
different
> as it keeps the variables in the timekeeper structure
> rather then in the tkr.
> + * @last_warning: Warning ratelimiter (DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING)
> + * @underflow_seen: Underflow warning flag (DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING)
> + * @overflow_seen: Overflow warning flag (DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING)
> *
> * Note: For timespec(64) based interfaces wall_to_monotonic is what
> * we need to add to xtime (or xtime corrected for sub jiffie times)
> @@ -106,6 +109,18 @@ struct timekeeper {
> s64 ntp_error;
> u32 ntp_error_shift;
> u32 ntp_err_mult;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
> + long last_warning;
> + /*
> + * These simple flag variables are managed
> + * without locks, which is racy, but ok since
> + * we don't really care about being super
> + * precise about how many events were seen,
> + * just that a problem was observed.
s/but ok since/
but they are ok since
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-20 17:19 [PATCH 0/7] Current queue for tip/timers/core John Stultz
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/7] time: make sure tz_minuteswest is set to a valid value when setting time John Stultz
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 2/7] timekeeping: Provide new API to get the current time resolution John Stultz
2015-05-20 17:53 ` Harald Geyer
2015-05-20 18:04 ` John Stultz
2015-05-20 18:55 ` Harald Geyer
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 3/7] time: Rework debugging variables so they aren't global John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 4/7] tracing: timer: Add deferrable flag to timer_start John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-22 22:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-05-23 8:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-24 6:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 5/7] time: include math64.h in time64.h John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 6/7] s390: time: Provide read_boot_clock64() and read_persistent_clock64() John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 17:19 ` [PATCH 7/7] time: Remove read_boot_clock() John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-20 18:42 ` [PATCH 0/7] Current queue for tip/timers/core John Stultz
2015-05-21 6:19 ` Ingo Molnar
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