Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path?

From: Samuel Tardieu
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 06:11:27 EST


>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> Did you get to the bottom of this yet? It looks like you're right,
>> and I suggest a seqlock might be a good option.

Andi> It basically doesn't matter because nobody changes the time zone
Andi> after boot.

I do when I travel, and my laptop has a dual-core processor.

Sam
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