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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-01-25 21:08:31 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:08:31 +0100
commit2d44ae4d7135b9aee26439b3523b43473381bc5f (patch)
treeba3afc0f03142d26f9238974dab5b99bf1dca1db /kernel/time
parent48d5e258216f1c7713633439beb98a38c7290649 (diff)
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hrtimer: clean up cpu->base locking tricks
In order to more easily allow for the scheduler to use timers, clean up the locking a bit. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 5f9fb64..1a21b6f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -514,7 +514,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
{
struct tick_sched *ts =
container_of(timer, struct tick_sched, sched_timer);
- struct hrtimer_cpu_base *base = timer->base->cpu_base;
struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
ktime_t now = ktime_get();
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
@@ -552,15 +551,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart tick_sched_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
touch_softlockup_watchdog();
ts->idle_jiffies++;
}
- /*
- * update_process_times() might take tasklist_lock, hence
- * drop the base lock. sched-tick hrtimers are per-CPU and
- * never accessible by userspace APIs, so this is safe to do.
- */
- spin_unlock(&base->lock);
update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
- spin_lock(&base->lock);
}
/* Do not restart, when we are in the idle loop */
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