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Re: jiffies_64 vs. jiffies

from [Nick Piggin] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: jiffies_64 vs. jiffies
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:52:37 +1100
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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Atsushi Nemoto wrote:


@@ -924,8 +924,7 @@ static inline void update_times(void)
void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs) 
 {
-       jiffies_64++;
-       update_times();
+       update_times(++jiffies_64);
        softlockup_tick(regs);
 }


jiffies_64 is not volatile so you should not have to obfuscate
the code like this.

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