Commit 39e8202b authored Mar 26, 2013 by Henrik Austad Committed by Chris Metcalf Mar 26, 2013

tile: ns2cycles should use __raw_get_cpu_var



ns2cycles use per_cpu variables, and will, eventually, find its way into
smp_processor_id(). This is not safe in a preemptible kernel;
preemption should ideally be disabled.

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code:
systemd-modules/367
caller is ns2cycles+0x40/0xb8

Starting stack dump of tid 367, pid 367 (systemd-modules) on cpu 2 at
cycle 20969956421
 frame 0: 0xfffffff70004b860 dump_stack+0x0/0x20 (sp 0xfffffe407993fa90)
 frame 1: 0xfffffff7006abc28 debug_smp_processor_id+0x1a8/0x1e0 (sp
0xfffffe407993fa90)
 frame 2: 0xfffffff7004d7b40 ns2cycles+0x40/0xb8 (sp 0xfffffe407993fab8)
 frame 3: 0xfffffff7004dc578 __ndelay+0x38/0x80 (sp 0xfffffe407993fae0)

However, in this case:

- the frequency is the same accross all cores
- we use the data read-only
- we do not scale the frequency

Which means that we can use the __raw_get_cpu_var instead.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <haustad@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

parent d9acae6b

arch/tile/kernel/time.c

+5 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -230,6 +230,10 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int multiplier)
		*/
		cycles_t ns2cycles(unsigned long nsecs)
		{
		struct clock_event_device *dev = &__get_cpu_var(tile_timer);
		/*
		* We do not have to disable preemption here as each core has the same
		* clock frequency.
		*/
		struct clock_event_device *dev = &__raw_get_cpu_var(tile_timer);
		return ((u64)nsecs * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
		}

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