[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: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 8256f3f..bf7c419 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -941,6 +941,8 @@
void do_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
jiffies_64++;
+ /* prevent loading jiffies before storing new jiffies_64 value. */
+ barrier();
update_times();
softlockup_tick(regs);
}