[RFC PATCH] ARM: sched_clock: allow sched_clock to be selected at runtime
Jamie Iles
jamie at jamieiles.com
Thu Aug 11 04:49:06 EDT 2011
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:25:15AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:49:07PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > Tested on my 1176 platform and works nicely. However, shouldn't the
> > read functions still be marked notrace so they don't appear in ftrace
> > output?
> >
> > On my (out of tree) platform, omitting notrace and having all of the
> > ftrace bootup tests results in a hard lockup. Annotating the read
> > function resolves this.
>
> Why not also convert ftrace to use clocksources ?
I can't say I know enough about ftrace to say what the implications of
that would be (other than a dependency on all platforms having a
suitable clocksource).
Jamie
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