From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: v2.6.19-rt6, yum/rpm Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:52:38 +0300 Message-ID: <45C20CC6.2070201@ru.mvista.com> References: <20061205171114.GA25926@elte.hu> <4582CAD6.9040404@ru.mvista.com> <20061215161952.GA29191@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061215161952.GA29191@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org Hello. Ingo Molnar wrote: >>>as usual, bugreports, fixes and suggestions are welcome, >> Be aware that even with the newest -rt patch, the PowerPC TOD >>vsyscalls are still broken, i.e. glibc may return imprecise/incorrect >>results for the related calls -- despite arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c >>has been at last fixed to at least compile, the PowerPC clocksource >>patch removed the important part of TOD vsyscall support, and this >>hasn't been dealt with. I've sent to Thomas Gleixner a patch removing >>the affected vsyscalls altogether for the time being in the early >>November (unfortunately, I came to know of the breakage too late, and >>hadn't time to deal with it propery due to othr woes), however, I'm >>not seeing any of my patches (I've also done PowerPC clockevents >>support) merged to -rt (or otherwise published). Most of the patches >>can be found in the linuxppc-dev list archives, for the interested... > could you resend them to me please? Seeing that GENERIC_TIME has been thrown out from the -rt patch, it makes no sense now (even if I had time -- I also decided to leave this to Thomas as the HRT maintainer). Concerning this change: tghe patch that comments out recalc_time_offset() call in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c must have be thrown out as well since it's breaking TOD vsyscall support now. > Ingo WBR, Sergei