Re: How is Code in do_sys_settimeofday() safe in case of SMP andNest Kernel Path?

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Sep 30 2006 - 13:14:23 EST


On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Did you get to the bottom of this yet? It looks like you're right,
> > and I suggest a seqlock might be a good option.
>
> It basically doesn't matter because nobody changes the time zone after boot.

Then we need to change to comments to explain the situation.

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