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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:29:44 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c
Message-ID:  <200801180929.45123.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10801180534y7f97f39meb0b12624e0b919a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200801181300.m0ID0SMi041767@repoman.freebsd.org> <3bbf2fe10801180534y7f97f39meb0b12624e0b919a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 18 January 2008 08:34:57 am Attilio Rao wrote:
> 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.

Not on 32-bit archs like i386.  They may do two 32-bit reads and you could
have problems if the lower 32 wraps in between the reads.

-- 
John Baldwin



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