Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 21:08:08 EST

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Hi,

> +#define INITIAL_JIFFIES (0xffffffffUL & (unsigned long)(-300*HZ))

In order to make 64bit arches wrap too, you might want to use -1UL here.
Not that jiffies should wrap on a 64bit machine...

Anton
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