* john stultz <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
> Just another cleanup patch from the C3 timekeeping tree (which you can
> find here: http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ ) I wanted to RFC.
>
> This patch kills all xtime references in i386 and replaces them with
> proper settimeofday()/gettimeofday() calls.
>
> I'm not sure the APM changes are 100% right, as that code is very
> muddled (take the i8253_lock before calling reinit_timer, which would
> take the i8253_lock again and hang if it weren't ifdef'ed out!).
yeah, that code looks very suspect.
> Anyway, testing, feedback or comments would be appreciated!
These cleanups look good to me. I gave your patch a testrun on a
lockdep-enabled allyesconfig bzImage kernel on i686, and there are no
apprent problems - it booted up just fine.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Ingo
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