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Subject: Re: PATCH: jiffies is UL
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Maw, 2003-04-08 at 01:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > -#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
> > +#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long) (-300*HZ))
> >  
> 
> No, this is deliberate.  It triggers a wrap from 0x00000000ffffffff to
> 0x0000000100000000 after 5 minutes uptime on 64-bit machines, which has found
> bugs.
> 
> The fix is to add a comment, so this patch stops coming out ;)

I which case it should be ((unsigned long)((unsigned int ....))

so the assignment type is right