Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:22:29 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: rcutorture xtime usage |
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:00:40PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 03:31:46AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:51:06AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.23-rc2-mm1: > > >... > > > +allow-rcutorture-to-handle-synchronize_sched.patch > > >... > > > 2.6.23 queue > > >... > > > > All drivers were converted to no longer use xtime directly since it > > might be quite outdated, but this patch adds a usage of xtime.tv_nsec > > as RNG... > > This code doesn't care if the time is outdated, as it is simply > periodically perturbing an RNG, but OK. >...
I should have been a bit more concrete:
I have a patch pending to unexport xtime for catching unsafe usages, and you added an (ab)user.
> Thanx, Paul
cu Adrian
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