On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:27:33AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Olof Johansson writes:
>
> > Make sure the new timebase value is available by the time take_timebase
> > completes. Otherwise take_timebase might race with give_timebase,
> > causing severe badness when the value later is modified (
Olof Johansson writes:
> Make sure the new timebase value is available by the time take_timebase
> completes. Otherwise take_timebase might race with give_timebase,
> causing severe badness when the value later is modified (think looong
> hang trying to catch up with a very large number of lost ti
Make sure the new timebase value is available by the time take_timebase
completes. Otherwise take_timebase might race with give_timebase,
causing severe badness when the value later is modified (think looong
hang trying to catch up with a very large number of lost ticks).
This has shown up lately,
