linux-kernel - [git pull] scheduler fixes

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Message-ID: <20071207182134.GB26778@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:21:34 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [git pull] scheduler fixes


Linus, please pull the latest scheduler git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git

two commits: a lockdep warning improvement and a sched_clock() fix. 
Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Ingo Molnar (2):
      lockdep: make cli/sti annotation warnings clearer
      sched: enable early use of sched_clock()

 lockdep.c |   13 +++++++++----
 sched.c   |    7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index 0f38962..723bd9f 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -2654,10 +2654,15 @@ static void check_flags(unsigned long flags)
 	if (!debug_locks)
 		return;
 
-	if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
-		DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirqs_enabled);
-	else
-		DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!current->hardirqs_enabled);
+	if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) {
+		if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirqs_enabled)) {
+			printk("possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.\n");
+		}
+	} else {
+		if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!current->hardirqs_enabled)) {
+			printk("possible reason: unannotated irqs-on.\n");
+		}
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * We dont accurately track softirq state in e.g.
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 67d9d17..c6e551d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -488,7 +488,12 @@ unsigned long long cpu_clock(int cpu)
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
-	update_rq_clock(rq);
+	/*
+	 * Only call sched_clock() if the scheduler has already been
+	 * initialized (some code might call cpu_clock() very early):
+	 */
+	if (rq->idle)
+		update_rq_clock(rq);
 	now = rq->clock;
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 

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