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    SubjectRe: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]
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    > The same here (now that I can boot too). The tty stop responding when
    > jiffies wrap. SysRQ keys works though. The hd seems slow too.

    Yep. I think something may be afoot in the timers

    > This part of the new jiffies-5 patch should fix the get_fast_timeoffset()
    > jiffies wrap bug (extracted from the now patch and posted to the list to
    > allow more people to complain). Note that JIFFIES_OFFSET should be set to
    > 0 for production. My patch set it to -120*HZ _only_ to allow catching wrap
    > bugs.

    Cool. I'll try and merge more of these into -ac4 until the code passes your
    -120 second test


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