Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2006 03:44:49 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) |
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Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote: > > Andi Kleen writes: > > > Also I assume Atsushi-san did the patch because he saw a real problem? > > Yes, one which I also saw on PPC. The compiler (gcc-4) emits loads > for jiffies, jiffies64 and wall_jiffies before storing the incremented > jiffies64 value back. >
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