Re: [patch 0/4] time/timekeeping: Simplify vsyscall locking

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Feb 29 2012 - 15:13:09 EST


On 02/28/2012 11:46 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> vsyscall updates have a separate seqlock which nests into
> xtime_lock. There is no point to grab another lock for nothing. All it
> needs is to update the seqcount which is user space visible.
>
> The following series cleans that up.

FWIW, patches 2 and 3 are
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you let me know when these hit a git tree somewhere? I have two
more vdso clock speedups I want to send for 3.4, and I'll rebase them on
top of these.

Thanks,
Andy
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