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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: time() glitch on 2.4.18: solved
> could that be the reason a few people have experienced occasionnal jumps
> backwards in gettimeofday() a few months ago, which many others could never
> reproduce ? Just because of buggy hardware ?

An unpaired read on port 0x40 is almost certainly the cause of e.g.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.0/1505.html

and we would expect to see the problem with count==LATCH about 1/11932
of the time, about 0.008% -- almost exactly the value reported in:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0206.3/0043.html

I believe that by adding both the (count > LATCH) check and a second
(count == LATCH) check, we can fix both of these.

-jim
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