On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:02 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
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> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > It only happens with CONFIG_HIGHRES_TIMERS=y otherwise clock_was_set()
> > is a NOP. So only the 2.6.21 kernel and i386 and ARM are affected.
> 
> Are you certain?

At least for anything >= 2.6.16

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> Vanilla 2.6.10 shows a clock_was_set() function.  Does it just not call 
> the dangerous code or something?

Ouch, the old posix timer code might be affected as well, but I did not
look.

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> Also, our modified 2.6.10 has the high res timers patch applied, but the 
> config option is turned off and we were still affected.

You mean Anzingers high res patches. No idea about those.

	tglx


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