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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > >>How about we give each arch a printk_clock()? > > > > > > Which might be as simple as this.. > > > > > > sched_clock() shouldn't really be taken outside kernel/sched.c, > especially for things like this. > > It actually has some fundamental problems even in its current > use in the scheduler (which need to be fixed). But basically it > is a very nasty interface with a rather tenuous relationship to > time. yup. > Why not use something like do_gettimeofday? (or I'm sure one > of our time keepers can suggest the right thing to use). do_gettimeofday() takes locks, so a) we can't do printk from inside it and b) if you do a printk-from-interupt and the interrupted code was running do_gettimeofday(), deadlock. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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