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perf_counter: remove rq->lock usage

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Now that all the task runtime clock users are gone, remove the ugly
rq->lock usage from perf counters, which solves the nasty deadlock
seen when a software task clock counter was read from an NMI overflow
context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.531137582@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-06 11:45:12 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a39d6f2556
commit 849691a6cd
3 changed files with 16 additions and 48 deletions
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@ -85,8 +85,6 @@ static inline unsigned int kstat_irqs(unsigned int irq)
/*
* Lock/unlock the current runqueue - to extract task statistics:
*/
extern void curr_rq_lock_irq_save(unsigned long *flags);
extern void curr_rq_unlock_irq_restore(unsigned long *flags);
extern unsigned long long __task_delta_exec(struct task_struct *tsk, int update);
extern unsigned long long task_delta_exec(struct task_struct *);