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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3)
Hello.

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

>>Why is cycles_t 32-bits on some
>>of the arches to begin with?

> I guess this was done for speed reasons.

The whole 64-bit timebase can't be rad atomically on PPC32. ARM probably
has stricter limitations...

>> Ingo

WBR, Sergei
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