Commit 5aee405c authored by Atsushi Nemoto's avatar Atsushi Nemoto Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] time: add barrier after updating jiffies_64

Add a compiler barrier so that we don't read jiffies before updating
jiffies_64.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent a615fa83
...@@ -941,6 +941,8 @@ static inline void update_times(void) ...@@ -941,6 +941,8 @@ static inline void update_times(void)
void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs) void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
{ {
jiffies_64++; jiffies_64++;
/* prevent loading jiffies before storing new jiffies_64 value. */
barrier();
update_times(); update_times();
softlockup_tick(regs); softlockup_tick(regs);
} }
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