Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750721AbWJBKKy (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 06:10:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750725AbWJBKKy (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 06:10:54 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51165 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbWJBKKx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 06:10:53 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP and Nest Kernel Path? Date: 02 Oct 2006 12:08:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87mz8fm3nb.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> References: <451E8143.5030300@yahoo.com.au> <200609301703.45364.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zaphod.rfc1149.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 13 >>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen writes: >> 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. Andi> It basically doesn't matter because nobody changes the time zone Andi> after boot. I do when I travel, and my laptop has a dual-core processor. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ - 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/