Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft] | Date | Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:53:18 +0100 (BST) |
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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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