Re: [PATCH v5] x86/hpet: Reduce HPET counter read contention

Dave Hansen
2016-08-12T21:39:03Z

On 08/12/2016 02:25 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> + * The lock and the hpet value are stored together and can be read in a
> + * single atomic 64-bit read. It is explicitly assumed that the raw spinlock
> + * size is 32-bit.

So what happens when we have all the fun debugging options on?

> typedef struct raw_spinlock {
> arch_spinlock_t raw_lock;
> #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK
> unsigned int break_lock;
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> unsigned int magic, owner_cpu;
> void *owner;
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
> struct lockdep_map dep_map;
> #endif
> } raw_spinlock_t;