[parisc-linux] [PATCH] timer_interrupt and gettimeoffset.
James Bottomley
James.Bottomley at SteelEye.com
Sun Sep 3 14:29:37 MDT 2006
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:55 -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> I'm not sure about that. James might be wrong in this case.
> See do_cpu_irq_mask().
> It clears EIEM and thus disables all external interrupts
> including the interval timer. The comment is wrong in that
> we disable all EIEM bits, not just TIMER and IPI.
Yes ... I thought I fixed that the last time I pulled this code apart,
but apparently not.
I'll concentrate on fixing this, since I suspect it is the root cause of
the horrible interrupt latencies causing the ticks to back up.
James
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