Re: jiffies got lost because of printk

[Linus Walleij]

2009/7/14 ??? <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> We found that system time is not synced with RTC time on our embedded
> system. (...)
> interrupt will be disabled for more than 1 HZ and timer interrupt will be
> lost.

This sounds like you're using some kind of old timekeeping code.
Make sure you migrate to using a proper time source and clock
events. It will compensate for lost jiffies in situations like this.

Linus Walleij
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