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DateTue, 27 Mar 2007 09:00:49 +0200
FromEric Dumazet <>
SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
Jeremy Fitzhardinge a écrit :

> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long long, touch_timestamp);

...

>  void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void)
>  {
> -	__raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = jiffies;
> +	__raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = sched_clock();
>  }

Not very clear if this is safe on 32bit, since this is not anymore atomic.

Maybe a comment would help ?


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