[PATCH] gettimeofday stability
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 16 23:25:03 EST 2001
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>Yes, currently the decrementer interrupt assumes that it is the only user.
>This is quite simple however, use a while() {} instead of a do {}
>while() in the loop that catches up on pending decrementer interrupts.
Paulus already pushed such a patch to the bk repository (last week I
think). He rewrote the pmac lost_interrupts stuff to use the DEC to cause
interrupts.
Ben.
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