Re: Continual reading from the PowerPc time base register is not stable
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2010-04-22 00:50:31
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2010-04-22 00:50:31
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 19:44 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
I took an 8377 rdb board, and let it run timebase.c (with the isync & long long casts) all weekend, and have failed to reproduce the issue. That was on linux 2.6.33, and I've got another machine running the same thing under 2.6.28 for the last couple of hours, still unable to reproduce the issue.
Do we need to add an isync to the vdso and kernel gettimeofday() ? Cheers, Ben.