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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
	Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>,
	Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Paul@smtp2.linux-foundation.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:14:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424141418.887d1d98.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070424205918.GA25383@elte.hu>

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:59:18 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 13:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 
> > > And sched_clock's use of local_irq_save/restore appears to be absolutely
> > > correct, so I think it must be triggering a bug in either the self-tests
> > > or lockdep itself.
> > 
> > Why does sched_clock need to disable interrupts?
> 
> i concur. To me it appears not "absolutely correct" that someone 
> apparently added local_irq_save/restore to sched_clock(), but "absolute 
> madness". sched_clock() is _very_ performance-sensitive for the 
> scheduler, do not mess with it.

Why does a local_irq_save/restore make the selftests fail??

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-24 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 21:49 [patch 0/4] Revised softlockup watchdog improvement patches Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-27 21:49 ` [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24  6:49   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24  6:58     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24  7:09       ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24 17:51     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 17:57       ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24 18:16         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 18:32           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24 20:00             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 20:14               ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24 20:46                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 20:24               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 20:33                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24 20:48                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-24 20:52                 ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-24 20:59                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-24 21:01                     ` Daniel Walker
2007-04-24 21:14                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-24 21:20                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-24 21:33                     ` Daniel Walker
2007-03-27 21:49 ` [patch 2/4] percpu enable flag for " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-27 21:49 ` [patch 3/4] Locally disable the softlockup watchdog rather than touching it Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-28 13:33   ` Prarit Bhargava
2007-03-28 13:50     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-28 14:00       ` Prarit Bhargava
2007-03-28 14:09         ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-28 14:13           ` Prarit Bhargava
2007-03-28 14:44     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-28 14:51       ` Prarit Bhargava
2007-03-28 15:22         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-28 15:27           ` Prarit Bhargava
2007-03-27 21:49 ` [patch 4/4] Add global disable/enable for softlockup watchdog Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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