From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261807AbTDPWWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261823AbTDPWWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:22:12 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.203] ([12.47.58.203]:49484 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261807AbTDPWWL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:22:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:32:59 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: john stultz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, george@mvista.com, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, shemminger@osdl.org, alex@ssi.bg Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.67_lost-tick-fix_A2 Message-Id: <20030416153259.6f99bb4e.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1050530545.1077.120.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1050530545.1077.120.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Apr 2003 22:34:00.0781 (UTC) FILETIME=[46D267D0:01C30468] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org john stultz 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?