__ASSUME_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org
Tue Dec 6 00:50:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:54 -0600, Tom Gall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> > Last time we touched this code, the kernel support was in Linus's kernel
> > tree but not in any final Linux release yet made.  It was first in 2.6.12,
> > so I've updated kernel-features.h to define it now.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Roland. Do you suppose we might perhaps then take advantage of that 
> line in the sand and building to assuming later kernels just call the 
> syscall/vdso?

This is already there no ? If it's defined, clock_gettime.c will do a
direct INLINE_SYSCALL

Ben.




More information about the Libc-alpha mailing list