Re: [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64

[Anton Blanchard]

> I think that bit is actually intentional since __preempt_spin_lock is also 
> marked __sched so that it'll get charged as a scheduling function.

Yeah, its a bit unfortunate. In profiles with preempt on we end up with
almost all our ticks inside __preempt_spin_lock and never get to use the
nice profile_pc code. I ended up turning preempt off again.

Anton
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