Re: jiffies wraparound

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:27:15 +0100 (BST)


> >> by zero, the 2.1.126 time code survived this quick 'time travel' without
> >> problems. Apart from processes getting killed during wraparound, there is
> >> no big problem, is there?
> >
> >Im losing the entire tty subsystem for good when this occurs
>
> Alan did you removed all wrap fixes from sched.c ? The tty subsystem think
> that -1 means after a lot, while if you fix the wrap bug -1 go in the
> past.

If I drop the wrap fixes from sched.c and fix the sd fixes everything looks
good. Im now trying to test each one I have hardware for

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