Re: Linus rollup

Russell King
2003-01-29T17:25:19Z

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:04:37AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Should be fine as far as ia64 is concerned, since gettimeoffset()
> currently simply reads the cycle-counter (and I think even HPET-based
> interpolation would be lock-free).

If you're happy, then I'm happy.

I was only concerned because it looks like it might be a problem on
some implementations, and I was wondering what would happen on ia64
if a timer interrupt occurs between reading jiffies and itm_next in
gettimeoffset.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux