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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-10-27 12:28:35 -0400
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-10-27 12:28:35 -0400
commit3b950de9c94b4b9fde4f1340358ab52ce0f34be0 (patch)
tree724923f90b0d12bd6e0374b73e8fd06d8d8787e1 /kernel
parentdcd42ed3ea829aa99cf00d34c61e082ce575b193 (diff)
MN10300: Prevent cnt32_to_63() from being preempted in sched_clock()
Prevent cnt32_to_63() from being preempted in sched_clock() because it may read its internal counter, get preempted, get delayed for more than the half period of the 'TSC' and then write the internal counter, thus corrupting it. Whilst some callers of sched_clock() have interrupts disabled or hold spinlocks, not all do, and so preemption must be held here. Note that sched_clock() is called from lockdep, but that shouldn't be a problem because although preempt_disable() calls into lockdep, lockdep has a recursion counter to deal with this. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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