From: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:56:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dr67pj$uom$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060120021342.498532000@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the
> timer was read after the timer was cancelled, so the
> remaining time was always zero.
>
I'm seeing this problem on recent Fedore development kernels.
Interestingly, it causes the IDL 7 minute timed demo to exit immediately
upon trying to plot since it resets the timer and expects the old value
to be returned.
- - Orion
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-20 2:55 [PATCH 0/7] hrtimers updates Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] [hrtimers] Fixup itimer conversion Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] [hrtimers] Fix possible use of NULL pointer in posix-timers Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-24 21:56 ` Orion Poplawski [this message]
2006-01-25 6:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] [hrtimers] Fix posix-timer requeue race Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 11:36 ` Roman Zippel
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] [hrtimers] Cleanups and simplifications Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] [hrtimers] Add back lost credit lines Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 2:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] [hrtimers] Set correct initial expiry time for relative SIGEV_NONE timers Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 9:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-20 16:33 ` George Anzinger
2006-01-20 16:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
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