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From: Karim Yaghmour <karym@opersys.com>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Samuel Rydh <samuel@ibrium.se>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gettimeofday stability
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 02:49:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD7F303.FAD9EA51@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.HPX.4.10.10104121947440.1891-100000@gra-ux1.iram.es


Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> Given that time handling is completely different in 2.2 and 2.4, it is
> surprising. This would indicate that a decrementer interrupt has happened
> too early.
>
> How often does it happen ? Does it still happen with recent kernels ?
> Were you running something that touches the decrementer (MOL, RTLINUX) ?
>

I can't tell you if the interrupt is happening too early or not,
although code could be added to check this.

I can tell you that this has been noticed by more than one person.
I noticed this and so did the person at MontaVista that contributed
the cross-platform reading code (to enable traces to be read accross
different endian machines).

If you really want to see what I mean I could forward you a textual
trace sample to proove my point.

The latest kernel I've tested this on is 2.4.0-test10.

===================================================
                 Karim Yaghmour
               karym@opersys.com
      Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-14  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-11 19:00 [PATCH] gettimeofday stability Samuel Rydh
2001-04-11 19:42 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-11 20:09   ` Karim Yaghmour
2001-04-11 21:31     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-04-12 18:09     ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-14  6:49       ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2001-04-16 11:56         ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-16 13:25           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-04-16 12:53             ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-17 11:22     ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-11 23:07   ` Samuel Rydh
2001-04-16 11:25     ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-19 20:43       ` Samuel Rydh
2001-04-21 15:21         ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-04-21 18:16           ` Samuel Rydh
2001-04-21 19:37             ` Gabriel Paubert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-16 16:00 Iain Sandoe
2001-04-16 22:19 ` Dan Malek

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