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Date:      Sat, 02 Mar 2019 06:57:31 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Mark Millard via freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, bde@freebsd.org, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: powerpc64 head -r344018 stuck sleeping problems: th->th_scale * tc_delta(th) overflows unsigned 64 bits sometimes [patched failed]
Message-ID:  <8565.1551509851@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <210dfd0f50ee6b1149c914ee503502654eb5f328.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <D3D7E9F4-9A5E-4320-B3C8-EC5CEF4A2764@yahoo.com> <20190228145542.GT2420@kib.kiev.ua> <20190228150811.GU2420@kib.kiev.ua> <962D78C3-65BE-40C1-BB50-A0088223C17B@yahoo.com> <28C2BB0A-3DAA-4D18-A317-49A8DD52778F@yahoo.com> <20190301112717.GW2420@kib.kiev.ua> <679402FF-907C-43AF-B18C-8C9CC857D7A6@yahoo.com> <6669.1551473821@critter.freebsd.dk> <210dfd0f50ee6b1149c914ee503502654eb5f328.camel@freebsd.org>

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In message <210dfd0f50ee6b1149c914ee503502654eb5f328.camel@freebsd.org>, I=
an Lepore writes:
>On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 20:57 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> In message <679402FF-907C-43AF-B18C-8C9CC857D7A6@yahoo.com>, Mark
>> Millard via freebsd-hackers writes:
>> =

>> > > I must admit that 2 seconds of interval where the timehands where
>> > > not updated is too much.
>> =

>> I have no idea how you got in that situation, but it is very far
>> from how timecounters were designed to work.
>> =

>
>I wonder if it's fallout from reducing the number of timehands to 2,

Unless somebody added refcounting, that sounds even less safe.

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