On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:07:17AM -0500, dan carpenter wrote: > From: Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> > > > Hi list, > > > > i would like to know how does linux kernel handle jiffies variable overflow. > > > > -) Is there any check on jiffies's value? where is done? > > Tim Schmielau's 64 bit jiffies patch was merged in 2.5.60. The jiffies > value won't overflow in our life time... ;) Well, in the 2.4 series a trivial kernel janitor check ->Jiffies and all related variables to jiffies must be unsigned long And in the >2.5.60 kernels ->Jiffies_64 and related must be u64 or unsigned long long? Best regards -- Celso Gonzalez celso@bulma.net -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
