Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> writes:
>
> > 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...
>
> Seems somewhat pointless.
>
> (2^64-1) / (1000 * 3600 * 24 * 365)
> ~584942417.35507203243911719939
>
> I doubt any system ever will have an uptime of > 584 million years
> (assuming HZ=1000) and if jiffies wrap will be the least of their
> problems.
>
But the point of this patch is to catch jiffy wrap bugs in generic code as
well as in platform-specific code.
Doing it for 64-bit platforms as well will give us just that bit more testing
coverage, and has no cost. (Well, 8 more bytes of kernel image...)
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