Re: jiffies_64 vs. jiffies

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Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:52:37 +1100, Nick Piggin <[email protected]> said:


void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
-	jiffies_64++;
-	update_times();
+	update_times(++jiffies_64);
	softlockup_tick(regs);
}


nick> jiffies_64 is not volatile so you should not have to obfuscate
nick> the code like this.

Well, do you mean it should be like this ?

	jiffies_64++;
	update_times(jiffies_64);


Yeah. It makes your patch a line smaller too!

Thanks for your comments.

Oh it was nothing really ;)

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