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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010801132308.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200108011940.f71JeBT28007@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 01-Aug-01 Matt Jacob wrote:
> mjacob      2001/08/01 12:40:11 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/alpha/alpha      clock.c 
>   Log:
>   Don't initialize a clock twice (it's not a function of number of
>   cpus).

Erm, that's not what that is there for.  It is there because the clock is not
safe for SMP use.  I.e., we only use that timecounter in a UP machine.  We
don't call cpu_initclocks() multiple times.  However, on the alpha we always
call hardclock() (and thus tc_windup()) on the boot CPU, thus it _might_ be
safe for us to use this timecounter on SMP systems.  In any case,
cpu_initclocks() is only called once, so the 'once' variable is bogus.  Please
revert that part for now.

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