Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:53:18 +0100 (BST)


> The same here (now that I can boot too). The tty stop responding when
> jiffies wrap. SysRQ keys works though. The hd seems slow too.

Yep. I think something may be afoot in the timers

> This part of the new jiffies-5 patch should fix the get_fast_timeoffset()
> jiffies wrap bug (extracted from the now patch and posted to the list to
> allow more people to complain). Note that JIFFIES_OFFSET should be set to
> 0 for production. My patch set it to -120*HZ _only_ to allow catching wrap
> bugs.

Cool. I'll try and merge more of these into -ac4 until the code passes your
-120 second test

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