On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:02 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > well, this implementation is buggy in at least two ways:
> >
> > firstly, it allows a circular verification dependency in highres+dyntick
> > mode between the jiffies and tsc clocksources.
>
> In the current implementation, it's only happens if the only clocks that
> exist are "tsc" and "jiffies" which makes verification impossible
> anyway .. It's unlikely, but it is possible , the fix is not that
> complex.
Wrong. You actually can verify against jiffies. Johns orginal code did
this and mine does too. Actually this _IS_ necessary otherwise you can
not detect that the BIOS changed the cpu freqeuncy behind the kernels
back.
The circular problem is only relevant when you switch to highres/nohz.
tglx
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