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    SubjectRe: [RFC][patch 3/5] remove clocksource inline functions
    On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:03:55 -0700
    john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

    > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:17 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
    > > plain text document attachment (clocksource-inline.diff)
    > > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    > >
    > > Remove clocksource_read, clocksource_enable and clocksource_disable
    > > inline functions. No functional change.
    > >
    > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    > > Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
    > > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    > > ---
    > > kernel/time/clocksource.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
    > > kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 13 ++++++-------
    > > 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
    >
    >
    > There's a patch Magnus has that (should be) queued for 2.6.31 that makes
    > unbreaks the mult_orig manipulations enable/disable does. I suspect this
    > will cause this inline function removing to not be that much of a
    > benefit.

    After moving the enable/disable code over to clocksource.c there is no
    reason for the inline function anymore, no?

    > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c
    > > ===================================================================
    > > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.c
    > > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/clocksource.c
    > > @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ void clocksource_forward_now(void)
    > > cycle_t cycle_now, cycle_delta;
    > > s64 nsec;
    > >
    > > - cycle_now = clocksource_read(clock);
    > > + cycle_now = clock->read(clock);
    > > cycle_delta = (cycle_now - clock->cycle_last) & clock->mask;
    > > clock->cycle_last = cycle_now;
    > >
    > > @@ -567,16 +567,19 @@ void change_clocksource(void)
    > >
    > > clocksource_forward_now();
    > >
    > > - if (clocksource_enable(new))
    > > + if (new->enable && !new->enable(new))
    > > return;
    > >
    > > + /* save mult_orig after successful enable */
    > > + new->mult_orig = new->mult;
    > > +
    > > new->raw_time = clock->raw_time;
    > > old = clock;
    > > clock = new;
    > > - clocksource_disable(old);
    > > + if (old->disable)
    > > + old->disable(old);
    >
    > mult_orig needs to be saved to mult at this point.

    Yes, it would make sense to do that. The old code doesn't so I did not
    want to add it in a cleanup patch. That should be a patch on its own.

    --
    blue skies,
    Martin.

    "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



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