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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: ak@muc.de, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, clameter@engr.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
	johnstul@us.ibm.com, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 03:44:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060304034449.3fd5e2fa.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17417.32015.6281.253814@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
>
> Andi Kleen writes:
> 
> > Also I assume Atsushi-san did the patch because he saw a real problem?
> 
> Yes, one which I also saw on PPC.  The compiler (gcc-4) emits loads
> for jiffies, jiffies64 and wall_jiffies before storing the incremented
> jiffies64 value back.
> 

What was the effect of that?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-04 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-02 14:02 [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-02 15:51 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-02 19:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-03  2:44   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-03  3:04     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03  3:20       ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-03  4:31       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-03  5:45         ` David S. Miller
2006-03-03 16:26           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-03 16:31         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-04  8:18           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-04 11:20             ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-04 11:40               ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-04  5:21                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-04 23:13                 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-06  2:32                   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-04 11:42               ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-04 11:44                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-04 12:33                   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-04 16:43                     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-03 20:17       ` john stultz
2006-03-03 21:15         ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-04 17:15         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-07-30 14:54           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-07-31 10:36             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-01 14:44               ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-08-02 12:50                 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-03 15:53                   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-08-04 14:02                     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-06 16:13                       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-08-07 11:28                         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-07 19:58                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08  8:11                           ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-09 15:07                           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-03-03 18:13     ` john stultz
2006-03-04  2:34       ` Ralf Baechle

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