From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] x86/time: refactor read_platform_stime()
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 05:52:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5703C31302000078000E326A@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459259051-4943-6-git-send-email-joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
>>> On 29.03.16 at 15:44, <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
> -static s_time_t read_platform_stime(void)
> +static s_time_t read_platform_stime(u64 *stamp)
> {
> - u64 count;
> + u64 plt_stamp_counter, count;
"stamp" and "counter" seem kind of redundant.
> s_time_t stime;
>
> ASSERT(!local_irq_is_enabled());
>
> spin_lock(&platform_timer_lock);
> - count = plt_stamp64 + ((plt_src.read_counter() - plt_stamp) & plt_mask);
> + plt_stamp_counter = plt_src.read_counter();
> + count = plt_stamp64 + ((plt_stamp_counter - plt_stamp) & plt_mask);
> stime = __read_platform_stime(count);
> + if ( stamp )
> + *stamp = plt_stamp_counter;
> spin_unlock(&platform_timer_lock);
What reason is there to do that conditional write inside the locked
region?
Jan
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 13:44 [PATCH v2 0/6] x86/time: PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT support Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] public/xen.h: add flags field to vcpu_time_info Joao Martins
2016-03-30 15:49 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-30 16:33 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-31 7:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-31 7:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-31 11:04 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 10:59 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] x86/time: refactor init_platform_time() Joao Martins
2016-04-01 16:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-01 18:26 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 10:55 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 11:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/time: implement tsc as clocksource Joao Martins
2016-03-29 17:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-29 17:52 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-01 16:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-01 18:38 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-01 18:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-03 18:47 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 14:56 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:12 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:07 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] x86/time: streamline platform time init on plt_init() Joao Martins
2016-04-05 11:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 15:12 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:17 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] x86/time: refactor read_platform_stime() Joao Martins
2016-04-01 18:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-05 11:52 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2016-04-05 15:22 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:08 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/time: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT Joao Martins
2016-04-05 12:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 21:34 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-07 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 21:17 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-07 21:32 ` Jan Beulich
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