Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3)

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:23:00 +0100

* Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > 	/* check for buggy clocks, handling wrap for 32-bit clocks */
> >-	if (TYPE_EQUAL(cycles_t, unsigned long)) {
> >+	if (TYPE_EQUAL(cycle_t, unsigned long)) {
> > 		if (time_after((unsigned long)T1, (unsigned long)T2))
> > 			printk("bug: %08lx < %08lx!\n",
> > 				(unsigned long)T2, (unsigned long)T1);
> 
>    This earlier fix by Kevin woulnd't have sense anymore with cycle_t...

yeah, indeed - i've zapped this one too.

basically, what i'd like is the 32-bit clocks/cycles be handled 
intelligently, and not adding to the cruft that already is in 
kernel/latency_tracing.c.

	Ingo