Re: [PATCH] sparc: leon: Fix race condition between leon_cycles_offset and timer_interrupt

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Sep 09 2014 - 19:40:41 EST


From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:09:18 +0200

> This makes sure that leon_cycles_offset takes the pending bit into
> account and that leon_clear_clock_irq clears the pending bit. Otherwise,
> if leon_cycles_offset is executed after the timer has wrapped but before
> timer_interrupt has increased timer_cs_internal_counter, time can be
> perceived to go backwards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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