Re: perf_disable()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jun 11 2010 - 17:25:45 EST


On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 23:04 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 06:29:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > There is a fun little recursion issue with perf_adjust_period(), where
> > if we fully removed perf_disable() we could end up calling pmu::stop()
> > twice and such.
>
>
>
> We can have a local_t made nesting level on the stop/start that could easily
> deal with this.

Fanning it out to the relevant pmu implementation is the interesting
part..


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