Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932074AbWCCFqA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:46:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932115AbWCCFqA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:46:00 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:2709 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932074AbWCCFp7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:45:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:45:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20060302.214556.77789100.davem@davemloft.net> To: anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp Cc: akpm@osdl.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, ak@muc.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060303.133125.106438890.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> References: <20060303.114406.64806237.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> <20060302190408.1e754f12.akpm@osdl.org> <20060303.133125.106438890.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 13 From: Atsushi Nemoto Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:31:25 +0900 (JST) > I and Ralf talked a bit about the jiffies issue. Making an union > containing jiffies and jiffies_64 looks good to avoid such an > optimization problem, but it would affect so many existing codes. Maybe use an anonymous union? That might help... - 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/