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From: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Keep track of original clocksource frequency
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:38:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207150717.6211.0.camel@jstultz-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804021314400.26791@localhost.localdomain>


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:20 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > @@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ struct clocksource {
> >  	cycle_t (*read)(void);
> >  	cycle_t mask;
> >  	u32 mult;
> > +	s32 mult_orig;
> >  	u32 shift;
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  	cycle_t (*vread)(void);
> 
> This is wrong, with HZ=100 the jiffies clock multiplier suddenly becomes 
> negative and later the raw interval underflows.

Ah, thanks for catching that!

> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>




      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 22:11 [PATCH 1/2] Keep track of original clocksource frequency john stultz
2008-03-18 22:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW john stultz
2008-03-19  2:43   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19  3:01     ` john stultz
2008-04-02 11:39   ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce clocksource_forward_now Roman Zippel
2008-04-02 16:01     ` John Stultz
2008-04-03 21:07     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-02 11:50   ` [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW Roman Zippel
2008-04-02 16:01     ` John Stultz
2008-04-02 16:37       ` Roman Zippel
2008-04-03 21:11     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-02 11:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] Keep track of original clocksource frequency Roman Zippel
2008-04-02 15:38   ` John Stultz [this message]

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