From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932135Ab2DSSPM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:15:12 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:38474 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753919Ab2DSSPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:15:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4F905576.6040406@linaro.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:12:06 -0700 From: John Stultz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Prarit Bhargava , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Salman Qazi , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource, prevent overflow in clocksource_cyc2ns References: <1333552260-1170-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com> <4F7C8C3E.1020203@us.ibm.com> <4F7C9402.3090602@redhat.com> <4F7CF094.5020201@us.ibm.com> <4F7D8FA1.1010107@redhat.com> <4F8F4C31.7010209@linaro.org> <4F8F555F.7040404@redhat.com> <4F8F59E2.4080301@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12041918-3270-0000-0000-000005AE7769 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/19/2012 05:52 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> We should think about the reasons why we have interrupts disabled for >> so much time. Is that really, really necessary ? > I'm not against making the clocksource code more robust, but I don't > want to add crap there just to cope with complete madness elsewhere. > Very much agreed. -john