linux-kernel - [patch 0/4] time/timekeeping: Simplify vsyscall locking

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Date:	Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:46:02 -0000
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [patch 0/4] time/timekeeping: Simplify vsyscall locking

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.

Thanks,

	tglx

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