Re: [PATCH] libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset miscalculation

[Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>]

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 10:18 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:04:43PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > I think the above code will miscalculate seconds_since_last_reset
> > if 
> > 'jiffies' wraps around after an lport has been created and before 
> > seconds_since_last_reset is computed. Shouldn't
> > seconds_since_last_reset 
> > be computed as follows?
> > 
> > 	fc_stats->seconds_since_last_reset = (jiffies - boot_time) /
> > HZ;
> 
> But what happens when jiffies - boot_time becomes negative? Then we
> reintroduce the bug again and have 'fcoeadm -s' show weird values.

Hello Johannes,

If your concern is about 'jiffies' wrapping around on 32-bit systems
then you should use get_jiffies_64(). get_jiffies_64() - boot_time
can't become negative. It namely takes several million years before a
64-bit HZ counter wraps around.

Bart.