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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix potential jiffies overflow
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>>>>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:48:41 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> said:
>> Well, jiffies will lose 49.7 days... Then, how about this? We can
>> sleep 136 years.

akpm> but...

akpm> wall_jiffies += sleep_length;

akpm> wall_jiffies is 32-bit.

Yes ... and I think wall_jiffies can be removed completely (with
update_times() cleanup). Of course it should not be 2.6.16 material.

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Atsushi Nemoto
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