Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] [hrtimers] Fix oldvalue return in setitimer
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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To: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:56:37 +0100
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On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:56 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
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> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This resolves bugzilla bug#5617. The oldvalue of the
> > timer was read after the timer was cancelled, so the
> > remaining time was always zero.
> > 
> 
> I'm seeing this problem on recent Fedore development kernels.
> Interestingly, it causes the IDL 7 minute timed demo to exit immediately
> upon trying to plot since it resets the timer and expects the old value
> to be returned.

Thats the same problem.

	tglx


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