Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 2009 11:24:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Rgeression: 2.6.30-rc6-git3 build error - ICE from drivers/char/random.c |
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On Tue, 19 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I guess getting rid of 'jiffies' is also worth it. Even at its very worst, > 'get_cycles()' should return jiffy-level information, so adding in jiffies > doesn't add anything to it.
I take that back. If there isno TSC at all, "get_cycles()" might just be returning zero. So the jiffies fallback is probably better than nothing.
So I'll just remove the (long)&ret part. And you already said that that fixed it both with my previous patch and without, so I guess it's already tested.
Linus
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