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* PATCH: jiffies is UL
@ 2003-04-08  0:36 Alan Cox
  2003-04-08  0:40 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2003-04-08  0:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, torvalds

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.5.67/include/linux/time.h linux-2.5.67-ac1/include/linux/time.h
--- linux-2.5.67/include/linux/time.h	2003-03-06 17:04:37.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.5.67-ac1/include/linux/time.h	2003-03-07 14:57:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * Have the 32 bit jiffies value wrap 5 minutes after boot
  * so jiffies wrap bugs show up earlier.
  */
-#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
+#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long) (-300*HZ))
 
 /*
  * Change timeval to jiffies, trying to avoid the

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* Re: PATCH: jiffies is UL
  2003-04-08  0:36 PATCH: jiffies is UL Alan Cox
@ 2003-04-08  0:40 ` Andrew Morton
  2003-04-08 12:01   ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2003-04-08  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux-kernel, torvalds

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.5.67/include/linux/time.h linux-2.5.67-ac1/include/linux/time.h
> --- linux-2.5.67/include/linux/time.h	2003-03-06 17:04:37.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.5.67-ac1/include/linux/time.h	2003-03-07 14:57:13.000000000 +0000
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>   * Have the 32 bit jiffies value wrap 5 minutes after boot
>   * so jiffies wrap bugs show up earlier.
>   */
> -#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 ;)



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* Re: PATCH: jiffies is UL
  2003-04-08  0:40 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2003-04-08 12:01   ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2003-04-08 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds

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


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