Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:39:48 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix potential jiffies overflow | From | Atsushi Nemoto <> |
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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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