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From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Synchronise Count registers across multiple cores
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 05:01:00PM -0700, Tim Anderson wrote:

> This implements the SMP counter synchronization. This is a
> port of linux-mti commit 71fb5e76e8c01bfb04967131ac63a1d2194f8550

And duplicates most of arch/mips/kernel/sync-r4k.c for no obvious reason.

Why?

  Ralf