From 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Atsushi Nemoto Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:42:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] time: add barrier after updating jiffies_64 Add a compiler barrier so that we don't read jiffies before updating jiffies_64. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/timer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 8256f3f5ec0d..bf7c4193b936 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -941,6 +941,8 @@ static inline void update_times(void) void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs) { jiffies_64++; + /* prevent loading jiffies before storing new jiffies_64 value. */ + barrier(); update_times(); softlockup_tick(regs); } -- 2.20.1