Re: [PATCH 1/4] vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:48 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2012/11/14 Steven Rostedt :
> > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:26 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >> Prepending irq-unsafe vtime APIs with underscores was actually
> >> a bad idea as the result is a big mess in the API namespace that
> >> is even waiting to be further extended. Also these helpers
> >> are always called from irq safe callers except kvm. Just
> >> provide a vtime_account_system_irqsafe() for this specific
> >> case so that we can remove the underscore prefix on other
> >> vtime functions.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> -void __vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
> >> +void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
> >>  {
> >>   cputime_t delta = vtime_delta(tsk);
> >
> > Should we add a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) check here?
> 
> Why not, I'll add one in vtime_delta().

Probably make it a WARN_ON_ONCE() no need to spam the console.

-- Steve


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Re: [PATCH 1/4] vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion

2012-11-14 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
2012/11/14 Steven Rostedt :
> On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:26 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> Prepending irq-unsafe vtime APIs with underscores was actually
>> a bad idea as the result is a big mess in the API namespace that
>> is even waiting to be further extended. Also these helpers
>> are always called from irq safe callers except kvm. Just
>> provide a vtime_account_system_irqsafe() for this specific
>> case so that we can remove the underscore prefix on other
>> vtime functions.
>>
>
>
>> -void __vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
>> +void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
>>  {
>>   cputime_t delta = vtime_delta(tsk);
>
> Should we add a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) check here?

Why not, I'll add one in vtime_delta().
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Re: [PATCH 1/4] vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:26 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Prepending irq-unsafe vtime APIs with underscores was actually
> a bad idea as the result is a big mess in the API namespace that
> is even waiting to be further extended. Also these helpers
> are always called from irq safe callers except kvm. Just
> provide a vtime_account_system_irqsafe() for this specific
> case so that we can remove the underscore prefix on other
> vtime functions.
> 

 
> -void __vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>   cputime_t delta = vtime_delta(tsk);

Should we add a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) check here?

-- Steve

>  
>   account_system_time(tsk, 0, delta, delta);
>  }
>  
> -void __vtime_account_idle(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void vtime_account_idle(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  {
>   account_idle_time(vtime_delta(tsk));
>  }


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