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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-S1
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:49:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040919214920.GA8616@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409192311.37639.annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>


* Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> wrote:

> Am Sonntag 19 September 2004 22:48 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> >
> > The point is to let gettimeofday(0,1) start tracing and
> > gettimeofday(0,0) stop tracing - a system-call-controlled tracing
> > facility (if trace_enabled=2). This was used to trace weird latencies
> > before, but it's not the normal mode of operation.
> >
> Ok. The other point is a page_fault being generated later on in 
> sys_gettimeofday() if tz is not reset:
> >>>>
> 	if (unlikely(tz != NULL)) {
>                      ^^
> 		if (copy_to_user(tz, &sys_tz, sizeof(sys_tz)))
> 			return -EFAULT;
> 	}
> <<<<

yeah - it's a bit ugly. The right thing is to return from that branch.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-19 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-19 20:32 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-S1 Karsten Wiese
2004-09-19 20:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-19 21:11   ` Karsten Wiese
2004-09-19 21:49     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2004-09-19 21:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-19 22:36   ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-20 22:16 Svetoslav Slavtchev
2004-09-20 21:16 Shane Shrybman
2004-09-21  7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-21 15:37   ` Shane Shrybman
2004-09-21 15:59   ` Shane Shrybman
2004-09-06 11:06 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R6 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-06 11:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-09-06 12:25   ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-09-06 12:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-07  9:26       ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R7 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-07 11:57         ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R8 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-07 22:59           ` Lee Revell
2004-09-08  8:20             ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-R9 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-08 22:37               ` Lee Revell
2004-09-09  6:17                 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk12-S0 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-19 12:26                   ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-S1 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-19 17:05                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-09-20 17:14                     ` K.R. Foley
2004-09-20 19:48                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-21  2:25                         ` K.R. Foley
2004-09-20 19:47                     ` Magnus Määttä
2004-09-21 18:24                     ` K.R. Foley
2004-09-21 19:21                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-21 19:37                         ` K.R. Foley

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