Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261342AbVCOPxF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261343AbVCOPxF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:05 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:17301 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261342AbVCOPxC (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:02 -0500 Message-ID: <423704B1.8070207@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:52:17 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert Cahalan CC: Christoph Lameter , Matt Mackall , john stultz , lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , Ulrich Windl , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Patricia Gaughen , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A3) References: <1110590655.30498.327.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050313004902.GD3163@waste.org> <1110825765.30498.370.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050314192918.GC32638@waste.org> <1110829401.30498.383.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050314195110.GD32638@waste.org> <1110830647.30498.388.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050314202702.GF32638@waste.org> <1110852973.1967.180.camel@cube> <1110900235.7893.207.camel@cube> In-Reply-To: <1110900235.7893.207.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 15 Albert Cahalan wrote: > I know it works for PowerPC. You'll need an isync instruction > of course. You may also want a sync instruction and some code > to invalidate the cache. For PPC you'll want to flush the dcache, then invalidate the icache. This will ensure that it works on all processors. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/