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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc 2.6.16-rt17: to build on powerpc w/ RT
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155771487.11312.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155318983.5337.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>


> You might take a peek at the patch set here:
> http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ for a somewhat rough powerpc conversion to
> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME.

Afaik, as-is, this patch will remove updating of the various bits used
by the vDSO for userland gettimeofday without actually removing the vdso
itself. Thus, with a recent glibc, it will break gettimeofday,
clock_gettime, .... Pretty bad :)

Ben.

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tsutomu OWA <tsutomu.owa@toshiba.co.jp>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc 2.6.16-rt17: to build on powerpc w/ RT
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155771487.11312.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155318983.5337.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>


> You might take a peek at the patch set here:
> http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ for a somewhat rough powerpc conversion to
> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME.

Afaik, as-is, this patch will remove updating of the various bits used
by the vDSO for userland gettimeofday without actually removing the vdso
itself. Thus, with a recent glibc, it will break gettimeofday,
clock_gettime, .... Pretty bad :)

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-11  2:01 [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc 2.6.16-rt17: to build on powerpc w/ RT Tsutomu OWA
2006-08-11  2:01 ` Tsutomu OWA
2006-08-11  5:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-11  5:11   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-11  6:08   ` Tsutomu OWA
2006-08-11  6:08     ` Tsutomu OWA
2006-08-11 17:56     ` john stultz
2006-08-11 17:56       ` john stultz
2006-08-16 23:38       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-08-16 23:38         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17  0:00         ` john stultz
2006-08-17  0:00           ` john stultz
2006-08-17  0:26           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17  0:26             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17  0:56             ` john stultz
2006-08-17  0:56               ` john stultz
2006-08-17  4:43               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17  4:43                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-21 10:01       ` Tsutomu OWA
2006-08-21 10:01         ` Tsutomu OWA

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