Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:39 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > I was proposing that i386 and x86_64 be given a new, lockless,
> > high-resolution printk_clock().  Presently x86 uses the default
> > printk_clock(), which uses sched_clock().  Presumably copying the
> > pre-x86_64-mm-sched-clock-share.patch version of sched_clock() into
> > printk_clock() will suffice.
> 
> Ok. I think it's better to just fix sched_clock() again than to
> add another one.  I can probably
> eliminate the ktime_get() and use something based on jiffies. That will
> be inaccurate for the instable case of course.

hm.  People (ab)use sched_clock() for all sorts of things nowadays.  I wouldn't
do anything to degrade it just on behalf of printk-timestamping.
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