From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: time is ulong
Date: 21 Mar 2003 13:35:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528yv8pfmh.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303212002.h2LK2QtZ026205@hraefn.swansea.linux.org.uk>
> -#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
> +#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long) (-300*HZ))
My understanding is that this (unsigned int) is intentional. The goal
is for only the low 32 bits of jiffies to overflow, even on 64 bit
architectures.
- Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-21 20:02 Alan Cox
2003-03-21 21:35 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2003-03-21 22:08 ` Tim Schmielau
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