Re: [PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 01:54:06 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:56 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
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> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the
> > timer was read after the timer was cancelled, so the
> > remaining time was always zero.
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> I'm seeing this problem on recent Fedore development kernels.
> Interestingly, it causes the IDL 7 minute timed demo to exit immediately
> upon trying to plot since it resets the timer and expects the old value
> to be returned.

Thats the same problem.

tglx


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