Re: [PATCH] fix get_jiffies_64 to work on voyager

[Tim Schmielau]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Tim Schmielau <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
> >  @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> >   #else
> >   static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
> >   {
> >  -	return (u64)jiffies;
> >  +	return jiffies_64;
> >   }
> >   #endif
> 
> hm, why this change?  Are you sure that all 64-bit architectures alias
> jiffies onto jiffies_64?  x86_64 seems not to.
> 

It was jiffies_64 in the first place (that's why the function is called
get_jiffies_64(), after all). 
I once made it jiffies because jiffies was volatile while jiffies_64 was
not. Now that jiffies_64 becomes volatile as well, I thought we could
re-straighten things.

But we can leave out this chunk, it really shouldn't make any difference.

Tim
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