Re: [PATCH] i386 tsc: remove xtime_lock'ing around cpufreq notifier

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:43:03 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > hm.  People (ab)use sched_clock() for all sorts of things nowadays.  I wouldn't
> > do anything to degrade it just on behalf of printk-timestamping.
> >   
> 
> printk was the only non-scheduler-ish use I could find.  Are there others?

iirc some of the out of tree tracing toolkits used it at least.

-Andi
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