From: Luben Tuikov <luben@splentec.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: jiffies wrap in ll_rw_blk.c
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:00:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDBF7FC.B0DBC75D@splentec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037827173.3267.78.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 20:44, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> > --- ll_rw_blk.c.old Wed Nov 20 15:32:50 2002
> > +++ ll_rw_blk.c Wed Nov 20 15:33:06 2002
> > @@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@
> > complete(req->waiting);
> >
> > if (disk) {
> > - unsigned long duration = jiffies - req->start_time;
> > + unsigned long duration = (signed) jiffies - (signed) req->start_time;
> > switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {
>
> It was right before. Your patch breaks it. Think about it in unsigned
> maths
>
> 0x00000002 - 0xFFFFFFFF = 0x00000003
0x2 - (-0x1) = 0x2 + 0x1 = 0x3
Right! I thought (signed) does the job. I actually tried
it both ways and works all right. I guess either way works fine.
--
Luben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 20:44 Luben Tuikov
2002-11-20 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-20 21:18 ` Luben Tuikov
2002-11-20 21:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 21:00 ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2002-11-20 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 21:15 ` Luben Tuikov
2002-11-20 22:20 ` Olivier Galibert
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