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

[William Lee Irwin III]

William Lee Irwin III writes:
>> Checking in_lock_functions() (not sure what the name in Zwane's code
>> was) for non-leaf functions in get_wchan() in addition to
>> in_sched_functions() should do. e.g.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:38:15AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Well, no, not if we are two levels deep at this point (i.e. something
> calls _spin_lock which calls __preempt_spin_lock).  I really don't
> want to have to start doing a stack trace in profile_pc().

The semantics of profile_pc() have never included backtracing through
scheduling primitives, so I'd say just report __preempt_spin_lock().


-- wli
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