linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimised architectures

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Message-ID: <20070112174312.GA22771@Krystal>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:43:12 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, ltt-dev@...fik.org,
	systemtap@...rces.redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Douglas Niehaus <niehaus@...s.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimised architectures

* Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca) wrote:
> > 
> > OK, well one problem is that it can cause a resched event to be lost, so
> > you might say it has more side-effects without checking resched.
> > 
[...]
> If we are sure that we expect calls to preempt_schedule() from each of these
> contexts, then it's ok to put preempt_enable(). It is important to note that a
> marker would then act as a source of scheduler events in code paths where
> disabling interrupts is expected to disable the scheduler.
> 

Sorry for self-reply, but the above mentioned issue is dealt by the
irqs_disabled() check at the beginning of preempt_schedule().

Mathieu


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