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SubjectRe: [PATCH] linux-2.5.67_lost-tick-fix_A2
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch fixes a race in the timer_interrupt code caused by
> > > detect_lost_tick().
> >
> > Does this also fix the problem which Alex identified?
>
> Nope. It just handles the detect_lost_tick() race and related problems
> w/ the PIT causing seq_lock reader starvation.
>
> I'm still looking over the preempt locking issue he pointed out.
>
> I'll likely send a more cautious version of the patch he already posted
> to you.

OK, thanks.

I'm rather buried in timer patches at present. It would be best if you could
test new work in the context of those patches.

They are at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/timers/

The applying order is

posix_timers-CLOCK_MONOTONIC-fix.patch
jiffies_to_timespec-fix.patch
do_timer_overflow-locking-fix.patch
lost-tick-fix.patch

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