Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64aliasing problem)

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 07:27:12 EST


On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:13 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:02:43 +0200, "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Good start, now you only have the change the 30+ calls to do_timer in
> > the various architecture backends.
>
> OK, then this is a patch contains the changes.
> Adding S390 maintainer Martin Schwidefsky to CC.
>
> This patch is against current git tree, so does not contains a change
> to arch/avr32 which is in mm tree. I can create a patch against mm
> tree if expected.
>
>
> [PATCH] cleanup do_timer and update_times
>
> Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times().
>
> This also make a barrier added by
> 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless.
>
> Also adjust x86_64 and s390 timer interrupt handler with this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

--
blue skies,
Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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