From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/timer.c: xtime lock missing
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:04:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026120402.B31632@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417D87BF.6060803@mvista.com>; from george@mvista.com on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:09:51PM -0700
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:09:51PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
> If memory serves, there is a problem here in that the lock is taken in arch
> code and not all archs are taking it. I think a check of the several arch
> time.c callers might be in order.
Certainly absolutely none of the ARM timer implementations were taking
the lock. They do now because its rather necessary to ensure working
gettimeofday().
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 19:03 [PATCH] kernel/timer.c: xtime lock missing Benjamin LaHaise
2004-10-21 20:23 ` john stultz
2004-10-21 20:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2004-10-25 23:09 ` George Anzinger
2004-10-26 11:04 ` Russell King [this message]
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