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DateFri, 7 Dec 2007 12:17:20 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock
* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> > ah, printk_clock() still uses sched_clock(), not jiffies. So it's 
> > not the jiffies counter that goes back and forth, it's sched_clock() 
> > - so this is a printk timestamps anomaly, not related to jiffies. I 
> > thought we have fixed this bug in the printk code already: 
> > sched_clock() is a 'raw' interface that should not be used directly 
> > - the proper interface is cpu_clock(cpu).> > It's a single CPU box, so sched_clock() jumping would still be 
> problematic, no?

sched_clock() is an internal API - the non-jumping API to be used by 
printk is cpu_clock().

	Ingo


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