On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 23:51, Russell King wrote:
> While looking at some stuff, I noticed the following. Alan confirmed
> that this patch is probably a good idea...
>
> --- orig/kernel/timer.c Sun Jul 7 23:21:28 2002
> +++ linux/kernel/timer.c Sun Jul 21 23:50:17 2002
> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
> #define timer_enter(t) do { running_timer = t; mb(); } while (0)
> #define timer_exit() do { running_timer = NULL; } while (0)
> #define timer_is_running(t) (running_timer == t)
> -#define timer_synchronize(t) while (timer_is_running(t)) barrier()
> +#define timer_synchronize(t) while (timer_is_running(t)) cpu_relax()
You still need the barrier() as well
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