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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: gettimeofday() and copyout().  Is copyout() MPSAFE on non-i386 archs?
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    Poul indicated today that the microtime() call that gettimeofday() uses
    is MPSAFE.  copyout() on I386 is MPSAFE, and from my perusal of the
    other archs it appears to be MPSAFE for alpha, ia64, and sparc64 
    as well.  

    This would seem to indicate that Giant can be removed from the
    gettimeofday() system call.  I would like those familiar with the
    other archs to verify that copyout() is MPSAFE on them.  I am testing
    Giant removal for this syscall on i386 now.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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