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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
	 Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AArch64: Add hp-timing.h
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:39:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s2uusj5.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR08MB55993B922F081FF214EF0A8783039@VE1PR08MB5599.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:35:00 +0000")

* Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha:

> Hi Florian,
>
>> I meant: How is this disabled in glibc on older kernels?  Or is this
>> code just dormant as of now?
>
> As is, the timer is not used at all in the GLIBC installation - it is
> only used for timing in benchtests. So if you somehow managed to
> install a new distro on an obsolete kernel, then there still wouldn't
> be any issues.

Ah, thanks, that is what I was missing.

Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-28 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-28 10:11 Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 10:20 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-28 10:53   ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 11:06     ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-28 11:35       ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 11:39         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-06-28 11:49       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-06-28 11:55         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 12:10         ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 13:15           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 14:24           ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 14:46             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 19:16               ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-30  8:46 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-06-30  8:55   ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30  9:33     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-01 10:21     ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-07-01 13:48       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-07-01 15:33         ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-07-06 11:33       ` Florian Weimer

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