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Re: How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or SMP environment?

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:19:31PM +0530, raghu MG wrote:
> Hello,
> I have couple of questions.
> 1) In case of UP how is jiffies(timer) get updated while holding spin
> lock using spinlock_irq_save?

It isn't, and...
> 
> 2)My understanding is in smp environment jiffies updation cannot be
> done on processor holding spinlock irrespective of spinlock API.So
> timer interrupt should be enabled across all cores in SoC. Imagine a
> scenario in quad core processor where 4 cores are holding 4 different
> spinlocks & how is the timer interrupt for jiffies handled?

You can't rely on jiffies being updated while holding a spinlock.
Expecting jiffies to update while holding a spinlock is a bug.

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How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or SMP environment? raghu MG <raghumag@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 07:50 +0100
  Re: How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or  SMP environment? Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-10-26 11:50 +0100
    Re: How is jiffies upation while holding spinlock in Uniprocessor or  SMP environment? raghu MG <raghumag@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 12:00 +0100

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