Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:15:58 +0200 (SAT) | From | Mike Kilburn <> | Subject | Re: Jiffies Wraparound (was Re: interrupt counts) |
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On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, mlord wrote:
> The one that really worries me is having the "jiffies" wrap around, > an event which will happen every 17 months or so on production systems. > > A *lot* of the kernel will malfunction when that happens.
I would hope not. We always do diff = jiffies - oldtime; GCC handles the wrap correctly (look at the asm output) if all are the same unsigned type. What else could go wrong?
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