Re: Rgeression: 2.6.30-rc6-git3 build error - ICE fromdrivers/char/random.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > I guess getting rid of 'jiffies' is also worth it. Even at its very worst, 
> > 'get_cycles()' should return jiffy-level information, so adding in jiffies 
> > doesn't add anything to it.
> 
> I take that back. If there isno TSC at all, "get_cycles()" might 
> just be returning zero. So the jiffies fallback is probably better 
> than nothing.
> 
> So I'll just remove the (long)&ret part. [...]

I suspect we could add current_thread_info() or 'current' to it - as 
they are initialized variables. (which the stack pointer mostly 
boils down to - the stack depth is predictable)

Not worth the trouble though i suspect.

	Ingo
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