linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource, prevent overflow in clocksource

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Message-ID: <4F905576.6040406@linaro.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:12:06 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource, prevent overflow in clocksource_cyc2ns

On 04/19/2012 05:52 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
>> We should think about the reasons why we have interrupts disabled for
>> so much time. Is that really, really necessary ?
> I'm not against making the clocksource code more robust, but I don't
> want to add crap there just to cope with complete madness elsewhere.
>

Very much agreed.
-john

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