Re: 2.6.14-rt1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 12:17:47 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > - tracing fix (reported by Florian Schmidt)
> > >
> > > - rtc histogram fixes (K.R. Foley)
> >
> > Actually it doesn't look like these made it into the patch. :)
>
> Yeah, I noticed that there isn't even a check anymore in
> get_monotonic_clock_ts for time warping backwards. I guess John's new
> updates and Ingo's "smarter" code makes it unnecessary ;-)

well, the nsec_offset check was bogus (since it was relative to the last
tick) - but still your fundamental fix for disabling interrupts is
present, via the tsc_lock. I have moved the remaining checks to
__get_nsec_offset(), so they are still there.

Ingo
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