linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712301554430.8187@ask.diku.dk>
Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:55:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/38] arch/x86/ia32: Use time_before, time_before_eq,
 etc.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> > > > 
> > > > The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq
> > > > are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values.
> > > 
> > > The old code was actually correct I think, but the change is ok for me.
> > 
> > Please ignore the patch.  All of my before_eq and after_eq's are 
> > backwards due to parsing <= as >= and vice versa.  I will try again.
> 
> your x86 patches (#7, #8 and #9) do not include any *_eq() comparisons 
> and they all seem to be correct. So picked those three up into x86.git - 
> let me know if there's any breakage in them that i missed.

Only #7 is ok.  The other two have #include <jiffies.h> in the wrong 
place.  I will send new versions of #8 and #9 shortly.

julia

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