linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: Add preempt checks in preempt

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:35:07 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Add preempt checks in preempt_schedule() code

On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:11:45 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> So the problem with preempt_enable_trace() is that we just called a
> _notrace(), and while I now know these are two different trace thingies,
> I might have forgotten that in a few days.
> 

What about preempt_latency_start() for the disable, and
preempt_latency_stop() for the enable? Make it more like a stop watch?

-- Steve