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-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c14
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index e424970bb562..4c7de02eacdc 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@
static struct timekeeper timekeeper;
-/*
- * This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while
- * playing with xtime.
- */
-__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock);
-
/* flag for if timekeeping is suspended */
int __read_mostly timekeeping_suspended;
@@ -1299,9 +1293,7 @@ struct timespec get_monotonic_coarse(void)
}
/*
- * The 64-bit jiffies value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
- * without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
- * jiffies is defined in the linker script...
+ * Must hold jiffies_lock
*/
void do_timer(unsigned long ticks)
{
@@ -1389,7 +1381,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_monotonic_offset);
*/
void xtime_update(unsigned long ticks)
{
- write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
+ write_seqlock(&jiffies_lock);
do_timer(ticks);
- write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
+ write_sequnlock(&jiffies_lock);
}