Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: jiffies rollover, uptime etc. | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:10:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> counter, and I'm currently digging into that area... Stuff like a pc > speaker driver going wild bothers me a bit more...
Fix the speaker driver I guess is the answer. It shouldnt have done that.
> Could anybody perhaps tell me why he/she doesn't consider this a > problem? And is there a fundamental problem with solving this in > general? (I do see a problem with defining jiffies long long on x86, > because it might break a lot of things and probably wouldnt perform > as often as jiffies is touched... And you might sense I haven't > been into kernel hacking much...)
Counting in long long is expensive and the drivers are meant to all use roll over safe compares - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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