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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix clock_gettime to increment
	monotonically onPV-domain/x86
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:19:17 +0200
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I'm afraid this isn't MP-safe - you're in a (pseudo-)read-locked section =
of code,
yet write a global variable (and even in two pieces). Jan

>>> Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@jp.fujitsu.com> 15.06.07 11:47 >>>
Hi, Keir

  This patch intends to increment do_gettimeofday monotonically.
This is for PV-domain/x86.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@jp.fujitsu.com>

By applying patch, the time rollback for SMP is fixed.
This is important fixes for database software.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI