On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Feng Tang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:16:36PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Feng Tang wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 01:52:10AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > > > > > static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(__use_tsc); > > > > +static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(tsc_early_enabled); > > > > > > One potential problem may be the several static_keys used here, > > > the "__use_tsc", the "__sched_clock_stable", it may not be used > > > very early in boot phase. As the the static_branch_enable() will > > > use pageing related code while the paging is not setup ready yet. > > > > I know how static keys work and thats the reason for having the extra > > conditional. The key is disabled at a point where paging is available. > > Maybe I'm wrong, for printk timestamp, it uses the local_clock() thus > sched_clock_cpu() > sched_clock_stable > check the static_key "__sched_clock_stable" which is > defined FALSE, and need a static_branch_enable() to > take effect
And that has nothing to do with this particular patch. Please read the rest of the series, especially https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180615174204.30581-5-pasha.tatas...@oracle.com Thanks, tglx
