[PATCH] arm: sched: stop sched_clock() during suspend

Felipe Balbi balbi at ti.com
Tue Oct 23 13:24:49 EDT 2012


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:03:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 07:17:33AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> > > No, printk() does not need this.  You think it does, but it doesn't.  What
> > > we have is a difference between ARM and x86, and this difference is breaking
> > > the scheduler.
> > >
> > > The fact that the printk timestamp increments while suspended is a bug.  It
> > > doesn't on x86.
> > 
> > Russell, I agree that it's a bug, but does it qualify as a something
> > you're willing to take for v3.7-rc?
> 
> Definitely.  Our current behaviour across suspend for the scheduler is
> wrong.  This is one of the questions I had when I created the sched_clock
> stuff - but no one at the time could answer.  So, now that we have our
> answer, let's get it fixed to conform.

I have just pushed the patch the your patch system, hope I did it all
right.

-- 
balbi
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