* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [090528 08:25]: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:23:06PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Use processor specific defines instead. > > > > As an extra bonus, this patch fixes the problem of CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK > > calling sched_clock before we have things initialized: > > Hmm. I don't think sched_clock peculiarities should be handed by the > clock source implementation. > > This is really a generic kernel bug: lots of ARM architecture sched_clock > implementations can not be called before things like IO memory has been > setup - and that's something that mainline people have been made aware > of repeatedly, and they've fixed the problems when they've come up. Yeah agreed. > Moreover, the issue of using clocksources for sched_clock is being > discussed on the main ARM lists, with the possibility of the generic > kernel-wide sched_clock implementation being based upon clock sources. > > Whether that changes anything with this patch, I'm not entirely sure. The clocksource and sched_clock thing is a separate issue, this patch is still needed to remove the conflicting defines. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
