Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761560AbXEOHXS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 03:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755428AbXEOHXK (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 03:23:10 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43535 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755191AbXEOHXJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 03:23:09 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8479] New: gettimeofday returning 1000000 in tv_usec on core2duo Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:22:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Eric Dumazet , Thomas Gleixner , john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" , dang@gentoo.org, stable@kernel.org References: <200705150417.l4F4HlvS013354@fire-2.osdl.org> <46494DFC.6080104@cosmosbay.com> <20070514232301.69e27bbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070514232301.69e27bbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705150922.47702.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 30 > > > > I remember I already hit this and corrected it > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdi > >ff;f=arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c;h=dc32cef961950915fbaa185e36ab802d5f7ce > >a3b;hp=ba330f87067996a17495f7d03466d646c718b52c;hb=c8118c6c07f2edfd697aaa0 > >b93e08c3b65a5a675;hpb=272a3713bb9e302e0455c894c41180a482d2c8a3 > > Oh, OK. > > > Maybe a stable push is necessary ? > > yup. Please always think of -stable when preparing fixes. I'm sure many > useful fixes are slipping past simply because those who _are_ looking out > for backportable fixes are missing things. > > Greg, Chris: please consider c8118c6c07f2edfd697aaa0b93e08c3b65a5a675 > for -stable, if it isn't already there. The full patch is overkill because 99% of it is an totally unrelated optimization. Only the > -> >= change should be backported -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/