[PATCH] s390: stop_hz_timer vs. xtime updates

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The calculation of the value return by next_timer_interrupt from jiffies to
jiffies_64 is racy against xtime updates.  We need to protect the calculation
with read_seqbegin/read_seqretry.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Martin Schwidefsky 2005-11-07 00:59:02 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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