From 92205c2343527a863d660360599a4bf8cede77b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:20:55 +0200 Subject: ftrace: user raw_spin_lock in tracing Lock debugging enabled cause huge performance problems for tracing. Having the lock verification happening for every function that is called because mcount calls spin_lock can cripple the system. This patch converts the spin_locks used by ftrace into raw_spin_locks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.h') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index 98cbfd05d75..25cba28eb9b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct trace_entry { struct trace_array_cpu { struct list_head trace_pages; atomic_t disabled; - spinlock_t lock; + raw_spinlock_t lock; struct lock_class_key lock_key; /* these fields get copied into max-trace: */ -- cgit v1.2.3