From: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-S1
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:11:37 +0200
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Am Sonntag 19 September 2004 22:48 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
>
> The point is to let gettimeofday(0,1) start tracing and
> gettimeofday(0,0) stop tracing - a system-call-controlled tracing
> facility (if trace_enabled=2). This was used to trace weird latencies
> before, but it's not the normal mode of operation.
>
Ok. The other point is a page_fault being generated later on in 
sys_gettimeofday() if tz is not reset:
>>>>
	if (unlikely(tz != NULL)) {
                     ^^
		if (copy_to_user(tz, &sys_tz, sizeof(sys_tz)))
			return -EFAULT;
	}
<<<<

What do you think about including the swapspace-layout-improvements in the 
voluntary-preempt patches?

best regards,
Karsten
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