On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:45:07PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
> the kernel variable "jiffies" which is used to track uptime will overflow
> in approximately 497 days. (resolution=10 msecs & unsigned long - 32 bits on
> the i386). Don't know if this overflow can cause any adverse problems
> (other that the uptime command showing an incorrect value).
There were a lot of drivers which had wait loops like:
old = jiffies;
while ((jiffies - old) < 4000) /* wait */;
Alan Cox did a global cleanup sometime back. But there are plenty of
driver authors who don't have a clue about this.
-Arun
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