Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Another go at ktime_get_raw_fast_ns()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 08:20:07AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > So yeah, I just didn't try hard enough it seems; how about this?
> 
> Yea, this looks much better!  I'll queue it up for testing and if that
> goes well include it for 4.1.

I have a few patches that depend on it, so if you're ok with it I'd like
to carry the lot. But yes please test ;-)

> > Also, I think we should double check that everything passed to
> > tk_setup_internals(.clock) is either static storage or RCU-sched freed,
> > because with the whole latch thing one CPUs (fast) access might still be
> > in progress while the other is freeing the clock struct.
> >
> > Not sure what the lifetime rules of struct clocksource are here.
> 
> At one point it was install and never remove, but I think Thomas
> changed that awhile back, so I think your concern here is a good one.

OK, I'll try and dig around a bit on this.
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