Re: [PATCH] clocksource: save mult_orig in clocksource_disable()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 31 2009 - 08:18:43 EST



* Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:17 AM, john stultz<johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 00:24 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> >> From: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Save clocksource mult_orig in clocksource_disable().
> >>
> >> To fix the common case where ->enable() does not setup
> >> mult, make sure mult_orig is saved in mult on disable.
> >>
> >> Also add comments to explain why we do this.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thomas, Andrew, please push this for 2.6.31.
>
> This one is slowly making it's way in I suppose?

Btw., what specific issue does this fix? The commit description is
generic, there's no bugzilla link and no other information either
that could give me an idea about precisely what incarnation of the
bug you have hit.

Thanks,

Ingo
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