Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751309AbWI3ROF (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:14:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751317AbWI3ROE (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:14:04 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:32394 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751309AbWI3ROA (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:14:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:13:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andi Kleen cc: Nick Piggin , Dong Feng , Arjan van de Ven , Paul Mackerras , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path? In-Reply-To: <200609301703.45364.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <451E8143.5030300@yahoo.com.au> <200609301703.45364.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 552 Lines: 14 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. Then we need to change to comments to explain the situation. - 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/