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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dong Feng <middle.fengdong@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609301703.45364.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451E8143.5030300@yahoo.com.au>


> Did you get to the bottom of this yet? It looks like you're right,
> and I suggest a seqlock might be a good option.

It basically doesn't matter because nobody changes the time zone after boot.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-30 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 14:33 How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path? Dong Feng
2006-09-29 16:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-29 16:16   ` Dong Feng
2006-09-30 14:37     ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-30 15:03       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-30 17:13         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-02 10:08         ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-10-03  8:03         ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-03 10:03           ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-30 16:09       ` Dong Feng
2006-09-30 17:26         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-01  3:48           ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-01 12:22             ` Dong Feng
2006-10-02 10:12           ` Samuel Tardieu

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