Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >
> > yup.
> >
> >
> >>Why not use something like do_gettimeofday? (or I'm sure one
> >>of our time keepers can suggest the right thing to use).
> >
> >
> > do_gettimeofday() takes locks, so a) we can't do printk from inside it and
>
> Dang, yeah maybe this is the showstopper.
>
> > b) if you do a printk-from-interupt and the interrupted code was running
> > do_gettimeofday(), deadlock.
> >
>
> What about just using jiffies, then?
>
> Really, sched_clock() is very broken for this (I know you're
> not arguing against that).
>
> It can go backwards when called twice from the same CPU, and the
> number returned by one CPU need have no correlation with that
> returned by another.
jiffies wouldn't have sufficient resolution for this application. Bear in
mind that this is just a debugging thing - it's better to have good
resolution with occasional theoretical weirdness than to have poor
resolution plus super-consistency, IMO.
> However, I understand you probably just want something quick and
> dirty for 2.6.13 and would be happy just if it isn't more broken
> than before ;)
We're OK for 2.6.13, I think. ia64 people will quickly learn to not turn
the option on.
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