Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:03:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: further xtime race fixes [was Re: [patch] fix for xtime SMP race] |
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Am I missing something and the patch was not needed? I think that without > that patch some place of kernel could use a not consistent xtime value > because they are reading xtime without any lock (there could be a bh > handler or a syscall that is modifying xtime running at the same time on > the other CPU). I know the window is very small though...
I don't want to do the name-change. I fully understand you doing the name-change to find everything, but then you might as well just change it back, instead of sending me a large patch at this late date where most of it is syntactic..
Linus
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