On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 14:29 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> A while ago vtime_init_idle() used to invoke sched_clock_cpu() and
> had
> write_seqlock_irqsave() because sched_clock_cpu() required to be
> called
> with interrupts off.
> This requirement is written before the body of the function and was
> introduced in 2010 via c676329abb2b ("sched_clock: Add local_clock()
> API
> and improve documentation"). This requirement has been dropped in
> 2013
> via ef08f0fff876 ("sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable() from the
> clocks")
> but the body of the function still has the comment.
>
> Now, vtime_init_idle() was converted from seqlock to seqcount via
> b7ce2277f087 ("sched/cputime: Convert vtime_seqlock to seqcount") and
> while doing so the IRQ-off region around sched_clock_cpu() was
> preserved
> while not strictly required (given the first part of this commit).
> A little later, sched_clock_cpu() was replaced with jiffies via
> ff9a9b4c4334 ("sched, time: Switch VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy
> granularity").
> Based on this events I assume it is safe to drop the local_irq_safe()
> section.
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> -- All Rights Reversed.
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