Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:40:00 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [kerneloops] regression in 2.6.27 wrt "lock_page" and the "hwclock" program |
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> The warning occurs because hwclock uses this dubious sequence of > code to run "atomic" code:
Nobody should be using old versions of hwclock that do this as they are not SMP safe.
> So instead just enable interrupts in the pagefault path unconditionally > if we come from user-space, and handle the fault.
This should definitely also log an error to get users to remove that rubbish from their PC
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