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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:34:57 +0100
From:      "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe10801180534y7f97f39meb0b12624e0b919a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200801181300.m0ID0SMi041767@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200801181300.m0ID0SMi041767@repoman.freebsd.org>

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2008/1/18, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>:
> davidxu     2008-01-18 13:00:28 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_time.c
>   Log:
>   Make sure reading td_runtime in critical section since thread may be
>   preempted and td_runtime will be modified.

If you don't need the operation to be atomical with other operations
inside the critical path (and I don't expect so) this change is
pointless as our reading are always atomic.

Attilio


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