Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 - hrtimer hotfix

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 14:52:12 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, it's two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is closed.

Please pull from

master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/hrtimer-2.6.git

tglx


itimer.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff-tree 52ae41e3d11d6f1828c5827861b7b83b7e854222 (from
2664b25051f7ab96b22b199aa2f5ef6a949a4296)
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 17 20:03:14 2006 +0100

[hrtimers] Fixup itimer conversion

The itimer conversion removed the locking which protects
the timer and variables in the shared signal structure.
Steven Rostedt found the problem in the latest -rt patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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