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SubjectRE: Kernel-2.6.22 ntp bug
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Another option is to change all the drivers to be interrupts safe  

Hanoh

-----Original Message-----
From: Hanoch Haim (hhaim)
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 12:07 PM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org; Hanoch Haim (hhaim)
Subject: Kernel-2.6.22 ntp bug

Hi All, I'm new to this mailing list.


I think there is a bug in the kernel/time/ntp.c


The code call to the function update_persistent_clock(struct timespec
now); the driver below might be implement with i2c (driver of rtc )
which is not interrupt safe.

I have changed the ntp to use work_queue what do you think ?



attached the changed code:



+ fail = dpc_update_persistent_clock(now);


instead of

- update_persistent_clock(now); // this is called to function that might
be block. you can't do that in interrupt context

the function call schedule_work



extern int dpc_update_persistent_clock(struct timespec now){

my_ntp.now=now;

return(schedule_work(&my_ntp.update_rtc_queue));

}


another option is to change the wrapper function for the set_rtc_xx but
in this case you will need to change all the platforms that uses it (
powerpc)


Hanoh


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