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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] to fix xtime lock for in the RT kernel patch
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:35:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050121063519.GA19954@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41F04573.7070508@mvista.com>


* George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that we need to either do the attached or to rewrite
> the timer front end code to just gather the offset info and defer to
> the timer irq thread to update jiffies and the offset stuff.  In
> either case we really can not split the two and we do need the
> xtime_lock protection.

how about the patch below? One of the important benefits of the threaded
timer IRQ is the ability to make xtime_lock a mutex.

	Ingo

--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c.orig2	
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, voi
 	write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
 
 	cur_timer->mark_offset();
+	do_timer(regs);
  
 	do_timer_interrupt(irq, NULL, regs);
 
--- linux/include/asm-i386/mach-default/do_timer.h.orig2	
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/mach-default/do_timer.h	
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 static inline void do_timer_interrupt_hook(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	do_timer(regs);
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
 	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
 #endif

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-21  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-20 23:57 [PATCH] to fix xtime lock for in the RT kernel patch George Anzinger
2005-01-21  6:35 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-01-21  8:16   ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21  8:21     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21  8:39       ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21  8:45         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21  8:54           ` George Anzinger
2005-01-21  9:00             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21  9:08               ` George Anzinger
2005-01-27 20:53                 ` George Anzinger
2005-01-28  4:35                   ` Ingo Molnar

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