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Re: jiffies

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:07:17AM -0500, dan carpenter wrote:
> From: Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it>
> 
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > i would like to know how does linux kernel handle jiffies variable overflow.
> > 
> > -) Is there any check on jiffies's value?  where is done?
> 
> Tim Schmielau's 64 bit jiffies patch was merged in 2.5.60.  The jiffies 
> value won't overflow in our life time... ;)

Well, in the 2.4 series a trivial kernel janitor check
 ->Jiffies and all related variables to jiffies must be unsigned long

And in the >2.5.60 kernels
->Jiffies_64 and related must be u64 or unsigned long long?

Best regards

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