Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: - simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch removed from -mm tree | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:48:48 -0600 |
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Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> writes:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:39:57 -0600, ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) > wrote: >> > simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch >> > >> > This patch was dropped because it had testing failures >> >> Thanks. I didn't see a thread on linux-kernel for this so I >> just wanted to report that this patch killed my boot when the >> serial driver initialized, and at some other point as well when >> I did not compile in the serial driver. >> >> Just in case an additional data point was needed. > > I posted a patch to fix this failure. Please try with it. Thanks. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/15/135 > > I'll cook a new patch including this fix and AVR32 do_timer fix.
My kernel boots now, so I guess that fixes my bug. Advancing the clock by negative jiffies. Ouch!
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