Re: [PATCH] Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time

[Tim Schmielau]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> Since INITIAL_JIFFIES is -5 minutes, so I though tv.tv_nsec should be 0.
> The cause of this is
> 
>      INITIAL_JIFFIES % HZ (4294667296 % 1000)
> 
> because INITIAL_JIFFIES is unsigned long.
> 
> So, I guessed this is not intention.
> Looks like this should be (-300*1000) % 1000.

I think actually the whole xtime initialisation

        xtime.tv_nsec = (INITIAL_JIFFIES % HZ) * (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);

is bogus. INITIAL_JIFFIES should not be connected to any actual time, so 
this should really just be

        xtime.tv_nsec = 0;

I'll try to do a patch later on, and see what happens. Have to do some  
work-related things now.

Tim
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