From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750991AbWHPHtI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:49:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750993AbWHPHtH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:49:07 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:5791 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990AbWHPHtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:49:06 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: - simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch removed from -mm tree References: <200608141803.k7EI3Plc024729@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20060816.100750.08077480.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:48:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060816.100750.08077480.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> (Atsushi Nemoto's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:07:50 +0900 (JST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Atsushi Nemoto writes: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:39:57 -0600, ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) > wrote: >> > simplify-update_times-avoid-jiffies-jiffies_64-aliasing-problem.patch >> > >> > This patch was dropped because it had testing failures >> >> Thanks. I didn't see a thread on linux-kernel for this so I >> just wanted to report that this patch killed my boot when the >> serial driver initialized, and at some other point as well when >> I did not compile in the serial driver. >> >> Just in case an additional data point was needed. > > I posted a patch to fix this failure. Please try with it. Thanks. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/15/135 > > I'll cook a new patch including this fix and AVR32 do_timer fix. My kernel boots now, so I guess that fixes my bug. Advancing the clock by negative jiffies. Ouch! Eric