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Message-ID: <20070217145655.GA15662@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:56:55 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Jeff Muizelaar <jeff@...idigm.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using sched_clock for mmio-trace
> This is one of the reasons why we don't just use good old
> do_gettimeofday(), since it takes locks and can lead to lock recursion
> if parts of itself are probed.
do_gettimeofday doesn't take locks.
Only restriction is that you can't single step it with long
pauses between instructions.
-Andi
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