Re: Fwd: [PATCH] hangcheck-timer

[john stultz]

>         Attached is a patch adding hangcheck-timer.  It is used to detect
>  when the system goes out to lunch for a period of time, and then
>  returns.  This is interesting for debugging drivers as well as for
>  clustering environments.
>         The module sets a timer.  When the timer goes off, it then uses
>  get_cycles() to determine how much real time has passed.

This won't work on systems which do not have synchronized TSCs. Might
you consider using do_gettimeofday() instead? 

thanks
-john