Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] arm: Fix mutual exclusion in arch_gettimeoffset

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:12:39PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
Implementations of arch_gettimeoffset are generally not re-entrant
and assume that interrupts have been disabled. Unfortunately this
pre-condition got broken in v2.6.32.

Fixes: 5cfc8ee0bb51 ("ARM: convert arm to arch_gettimeoffset()")
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks like a sensible fix for -stable backporting.  But with m68k
converted over it might be time for these two arm platforms to either
be converted to the clocksource API or to be dropped..




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