[PATCH 1/5] powerpc: ftrace, do not latency trace idle

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 14:12:58 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Impact: fix for irq off latency tracer

When idle is called, interrupts are disabled, but the idle function
will still wake up on an interrupt. The problem is that the interrupt
disabled latency tracer will take this call to idle as a latency.

This patch disables the latency tracing when going into idle.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
index 31982d0..88d9c1d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
@@ -69,10 +69,15 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
smp_mb();
local_irq_disable();

+ /* Don't trace irqs off for idle */
+ stop_critical_timings();
+
/* check again after disabling irqs */
if (!need_resched() && !cpu_should_die())
ppc_md.power_save();

+ start_critical_timings();
+
local_irq_enable();
set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);

--
1.5.6.5

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