[parisc-linux] gettimeofday() issue on D270

[John David Anglin]

> So far I was able to workaround the problem by making gettimeoffset() return 0 instead of the actual result. This is in arch/parisc/kernel/time.c.
> It looks like gettimeoffset() returns a very large value when there is load on the system.
> This value seems to be adding 27 secs to the actual time one every 5 to 10 seconds. I poll every second.

Is this a 64 or 32 bit kernel?  The size of long changes.  There may
be a subtle issue with cr16.  It's reads as a 64 bit register.  However,
on writes, only the least significant matter.  I could see missing
a timer interrupt if we get close too close to the compare value.
The 27 seconds might be the time for the counter to wrap.

Dave
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