linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched_clock: fix postinit no sched

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Message-ID: <20131002174841.GH30298@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:48:41 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched_clock: fix postinit no sched_clock function check

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 10/02/13 10:27, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > Really... I have not created patch out of fun.
> > Its broken on my keystone machine at least where the sched_clock is
> > falling back on jiffy based sched_clock even in presence of arch_timer
> > sched_clock.
> 
> How is that possible? sched_clock_func is only assigned by
> arch/arm/kernel/arch_timer.c when the architected timer is detected and
> sched_clock() in kernel/time/sched_clock.c calls that function pointer
> unconditionally. The only way I see this happening is if the architected
> timer rate is zero.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*cough* CNTFRQ *cough*

:)

Will
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