Re: - simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch removed from -mm tree

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Atsushi Nemoto <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:39:57 -0600, [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
> wrote:
>> >      simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch
>> >
>> > This patch was dropped because it had testing failures
>> 
>> Thanks.  I didn't see a thread on linux-kernel for this so I
>> just wanted to report that this patch killed my boot when the
>> serial driver initialized, and at some other point as well when
>> I did not compile in the serial driver.
>> 
>> Just in case an additional data point was needed.
>
> I posted a patch to fix this failure.  Please try with it.  Thanks.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/15/135
>
> I'll cook a new patch including this fix and AVR32 do_timer fix.

My kernel boots now, so I guess that fixes my bug.
Advancing the clock by negative jiffies.  Ouch!

Eric
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