Re: contention on profile_lock

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>]

On Thursday, November 4, 2004 12:12 pm, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:56:23AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > ..but since I haven't heard from Dipankar, here's a patch that removes
> > the profile_hook notifier list altogether in favor of a simple flag that
> > controls whether or not to call the oprofile timer routine directly. 
> > Does it look ok?
>
> This looks reasonable to me.

John pointed out that this breaks modules.  Would registering and 
unregistering a function pointer thus be module safe?  Dipankar, hopefully 
you have something better?

static int timer_start(void)
{
 /* Setup the callback pointer */
 oprofile_timer_notify = oprofile_timer;
 return 0;
}


static void timer_stop(void)
{
 /* Tear down the callback pointer after sync_kernel */
 synchronize_kernel();
 oprofile_timer_notify = NULL;
}

Thanks,
Jesse