On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> I'm
> not quite sure why we need to use the irq spinlock, since we already
> make a local copy of jiffies so another timer IRQ changing the jiffies
> value shouldn't affect the return value of get_jiffies64(). Then again,
> that isn't exactly stuff I'm familiar with, so I could be totally
> off-base here.
Indeed, the outcome of get_jiffies64() cannot be affected. The lock is
just to prevent the tiny chance of jiffies_hi getting incremented twice.
Tim
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