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Re: A query about jiffies

> 
> 1) At the time of boot up is jiffies = 0 or does it start at a value > 0?
At startup jiffies = 0 
> 3) As an aside, a printk inside schedule() defined in kernel/sched.c as
> shown below shows something unexpected:
> 
> unsigned long j = jiffies;
> printk(KERN_NOTICE "Jiffies %lu: \n", j);
> 
> logs the following in /var/log/messages
> 
> ...
> blah blah ... Jiffies: 4294667652
do you mean to say that this isthe only entry ? or is it getting repeated?
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