Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:59:43 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Oct 31, 2001 19:35 +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero before posting the patch.
Actually, it SHOULD stay non-zero to fix exactly those problems, otherwise you need to wait a long time to test it... And the Linux development process is "developers can't possibly test everything, so users need to do testing as well.
> Testing with high INITIAL_JIFFIES values unfortunately still discloses > instability after the wraparound even for an otherwise unpatched kernel.
Exactly my point. Leave it in.
> This of course needs to be > #define INITIAL_JIFFIES 0 > for correct uptime display
Maybe for uptime display only, you could subtract INITIAL_JIFFIES from jiffies, for printing, but leave the initial value as non-zero?
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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