Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751047AbWI3PEN (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751052AbWI3PEN (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:04:13 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40403 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbWI3PEM (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:04:12 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path? Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:03:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Dong Feng , Christoph Lameter , Arjan van de Ven , Paul Mackerras , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <451E8143.5030300@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <451E8143.5030300@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609301703.45364.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 449 Lines: 12 > Did you get to the bottom of this yet? It looks like you're right, > and I suggest a seqlock might be a good option. It basically doesn't matter because nobody changes the time zone after boot. -Andi - 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/