Re: further xtime race fixes [was Re: [patch] fix for xtime SMP race]
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:03:56 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Am I missing something and the patch was not needed? I think that without
> that patch some place of kernel could use a not consistent xtime value
> because they are reading xtime without any lock (there could be a bh
> handler or a syscall that is modifying xtime running at the same time on
> the other CPU). I know the window is very small though...
I don't want to do the name-change. I fully understand you doing the
name-change to find everything, but then you might as well just change it
back, instead of sending me a large patch at this late date where most of
it is syntactic..
Linus
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