* Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems that the problem comes down to the call to getnstimeofday in
> > do_gettimeofday.
> >
>
> OK, not sure if anyone looked into this more or not. But this patch
> seems to at least fix the symptom if not the cure. I changed
> set_normalize_timespec to take a nsec_t type as its last parameter.
> Since I don't see a problem with overflowing a 64 bit number, this
> works for now. But I still don't know the full extent of
> xtime_last_update not updating during something like hackbench
> starving the timer softirq.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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