On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 03:19:40PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Scheduler runqueue maintains its own software clock that is periodically
> synchronised with hardware. Export this clock so that it can be used
> by interrupt flood detection for saving the cost of reading from hardware.
But you don't have much, if any, guarantees the thing gets updated.
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 90e4b00ace89..03e2e3c36067 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -219,6 +219,11 @@ void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq)
> update_rq_clock_task(rq, delta);
> }
>
> +u64 sched_local_rq_clock(void)
> +{
> + return this_rq()->clock;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sched_local_rq_clock);
Also, more NAK, you're exporting a variant of __rq_clock_broken().
(which, now that I git-grep for it, has become unused, good!)
