Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 2009 09:53:18 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Rgeression: 2.6.30-rc6-git3 build error - ICE from drivers/char/random.c |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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. [...]
I suspect we could add current_thread_info() or 'current' to it - as they are initialized variables. (which the stack pointer mostly boils down to - the stack depth is predictable)
Not worth the trouble though i suspect.
Ingo
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