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From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux ARM Kernel ML <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Subject: Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:01:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKGA1b=R+KJEJx1KmBy4oshy23QVJ1=Q9qXDyrzmdMAj3bN_uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130121224526.GA23505@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:30:07PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Monday 21 January 2013, Matt Sealey wrote:
>> > So is that a bug in that it is not available to ARM right now, a bug
>> > in that it would be impossible for anyone on ARM to have ever tested
>> > this code, or a bug in that it should NEVER be enabled for ARM for
>> > some reason? John? Ingo? :)
>> >
>>
>> I think it's a bug that it's not available. That does not look intentional.
>
> What's a bug?  kernel/Kconfig.hz not being available?  No, it's
> intentional.  (See my replies).

The bug I saw as real is that CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK is defined only in
kernel/Kconfig.hz (and used in kernel/sched only) - so if we want that
functionality enabled we will also have to opencode it in
arch/arm/Kconfig. Everyone else, by virtue of using kernel/Kconfig.hz,
gets this config item enabled for free if they have hrtimers or
generic smp helpers.. if I understood what John just said, this means
on ARM, since we don't use kernel/Kconfig.hz and we don't also define
an item for CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK, the process scheduler is completely
oblivious that we're running in HRT mode?

The thing I don't know is real is if that really matters one bit..

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21 20:01 One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 20:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 21:00   ` John Stultz
2013-01-21 21:12     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 22:18       ` John Stultz
2013-01-21 22:44         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22  8:27           ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 22:20       ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:42         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:23           ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 23:49             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22  0:09               ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22  0:26                 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 21:14     ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:36       ` John Stultz
2013-01-21 22:49         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 22:54         ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 23:13           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:30             ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22  0:02               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22  0:38           ` John Stultz
2013-01-22  0:51           ` John Stultz
2013-01-22  1:06             ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22  1:18               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22  1:56                 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22  1:31               ` John Stultz
2013-01-22  2:10                 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-31 21:31                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-01-21 21:02   ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:30     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 22:45       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:01         ` Matt Sealey [this message]
2013-01-21 21:03   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:23     ` Tony Lindgren
2013-01-22  6:23       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-22  9:31         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-22 10:14           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-22 14:51             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 15:05               ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-28  6:08                 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29  0:01                   ` John Stultz
2013-01-29  6:43                     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 10:06                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 18:43                       ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 17:31               ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-22 18:59               ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 21:52                 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-01-23  5:18                   ` Santosh Shilimkar

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