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    sched_clock: Make it NMI safe · def0a9b2
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    Arjan complained about the suckyness of TSC on modern machines, and
    asked if we could do something about that for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME.
    
    Make cpu_clock() NMI safe by removing the spinlock and using
    cmpxchg. This also makes it smaller and more robust.
    
    Affects architectures that use HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, i.e. IA64
    and x86.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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