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SubjectRe: gettimeofday() jumping into the future
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On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > + if (cycle_now < clock->cycle_last)
> > + return 0;
> > +
>
> No, this breaks wrapping clocksources e.g. pmtimer. We need a
> different sanity check for that TSC crap.

Yea. If you're going to do that sort of logic (which requires a costly
cmpxchg as well), it should be done in the read() function of the
clocksource.

thanks
-john




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