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vt: Add a note on the historical abuse of CLOCK_TICK_RATE
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 6 May 2009 16:17:26 +0000 (17:17 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 May 2009 21:47:13 +0000 (14:47 -0700)
commitfab892232e275e4e9351a50d018c0a9513155814
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parent413f81eba35d6ede9289b0c8a920c013a84fac71commit | diff
vt: Add a note on the historical abuse of CLOCK_TICK_RATE

This is one area where we can't just magic away the bizarre use of
CLOCK_TICK_RATE as it leaks to user space APIs. It also means the visible
CLOCK_TICK_RATE is frozen for architectures which is horrible.

We need to fix this somehow

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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