Re: jiffies - Where does it get updated in the Kernel ?

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:37:43 -0400,
"Tony Mouawad" <tonym.ace@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> My problem seems to be that the jiffies variable is not being updated.
>  It looks like jiffies is a common value in the kernel and it looks
> like it gets updated somewhere.  My question is where do I look in the
> kernel to see how the jiffies variable gets updated?

arch/m68k/kernel/time.c:timer_interrupt() calls
kernel/timer.c:do_timer() which updates jiffies_64.

If jiffies is not updated, it's likely that your timer interrupt is not
properly working.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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