Re: [PATCH 1/4] vtime: Remove the underscore prefix invasion

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 14 2012 - 11:40:18 EST


On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:26 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Prepending irq-unsafe vtime APIs with underscores was actually
> a bad idea as the result is a big mess in the API namespace that
> is even waiting to be further extended. Also these helpers
> are always called from irq safe callers except kvm. Just
> provide a vtime_account_system_irqsafe() for this specific
> case so that we can remove the underscore prefix on other
> vtime functions.
>


> -void __vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void vtime_account_system(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> cputime_t delta = vtime_delta(tsk);

Should we add a WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) check here?

-- Steve

>
> account_system_time(tsk, 0, delta, delta);
> }
>
> -void __vtime_account_idle(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +void vtime_account_idle(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> account_idle_time(vtime_delta(tsk));
> }


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