Andi Kleen writes: > Also I assume Atsushi-san did the patch because he saw a real problem? Yes, one which I also saw on PPC. The compiler (gcc-4) emits loads for jiffies, jiffies64 and wall_jiffies before storing the incremented jiffies64 value back. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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