On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nicholas Vinen wrote:
>expect, if anyone is making poor assumptions about jiffies). Has anyone ever
>edited the kernel so that jiffies starts at 0xFFF00000 at boot to see what
>happens, and fix any ensuing problems?
We did that before 2.2.x. We found and fixed all the design problem
related to jiffies wrap arounds and audited all the drivers before
2.2.x.
> My theory has always been, if all you ever do is subtract jiffies counts
>from each other, then you're fine, as long as no period you're measuring is
>> 2^31 units (highly unlikely). I guess checking that no other operations
That's the way we handle that infact.
Andrea
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