Re: fishy code in arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c:time_cpufreq_notifier()

[Michael S. Zick]

On Mon June 1 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:

Just ignore the last - I hit the "send" rather than "discard".

Mike
> On Mon June 1 2009, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 12:39 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> > > > index d57de05..78c54ea 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> > > > @@ -631,17 +631,15 @@ static int time_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
> > > >  				void *data)
> > > >  {
> > > >  	struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data;
> > > > -	unsigned long *lpj, dummy;
> > > > +	unsigned long *lpj;
> > > >  
> > > >  	if (cpu_has(&cpu_data(freq->cpu), X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
> > > >  		return 0;
> > > >  
> > > > -	lpj = &dummy;
> > > > -	if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS))
> > > > +	lpj = &boot_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy;
> > > >  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > > +	if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS))
> > > >  		lpj = &cpu_data(freq->cpu).loops_per_jiffy;
> > > > -#else
> > > > -	lpj = &boot_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy;
> > > >  #endif
> > > 
> > > This makes the code look a lot more sane and should fix the potential
> > > issue.
> > 
> > Tiny niggle that you wind up setting lpj (loops per jiffy) twice if
> > you're on SMP and have CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS.
> > 
> 
> At least it is consistent. ;)
> You set lpj twice if your not on SMP and have CPUFREG_CONST_LOOPS.
> 
> Mike
> > Jon.
> > 
> > 
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