Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] sched/events: Introduce cfs_rq load tracking trace event

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 14:19:13 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:20:05PM +0100, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> On 28-Mar 18:57, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:44:59PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > > +static int
> > > +__update_load_avg(u64 now, int cpu, struct sched_avg *sa,
> > > + unsigned long weight, int running, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
>
> __attribute__((nonnull (6)));
>
> > > +{
> > > + return ___update_load_avg(now, cpu, sa, weight, running, cfs_rq);
> >
> > Although ideally we'd be able to tell the compiler that cfs_rq will not
> > be NULL here. Hurmph.. no __builtin for that I think :/
>
> What about the above attribute?

Ooh, shiny, thanks! My bad for failing to check the function attributes.