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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-am33-list@redhat.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:23:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1703.1222986215@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810011110440.3635@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> Oh, that's a possibility.  In that case __m_cnt_hi will be reverted to a 
> previous state just like if cnt32_to_63() has not been called yet since 
> the new half period.  And a subsequent call will fix that again.

Surely that's not good enough.  There's a 50% chance that reversion to a
previous state will result in an extra increment of the __m_cnt_hi on the next
call.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24 16:48 [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/ David Howells
2008-09-24 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] MN10300: Make sched_clock() report time since boot David Howells
2008-09-26 10:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-26 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/ Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-26 12:03   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-26 12:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-29  1:21       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-26 12:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-29  1:42       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-01 14:34         ` David Howells
2008-10-01 15:36           ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-02 22:23             ` David Howells [this message]
2008-10-03 19:15               ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-06 10:44                 ` David Howells
2008-10-06 15:06                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-26 13:27   ` David Howells

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