From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Clem Taylor <clem.taylor@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME and initial value for jiffies?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 01:35:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4468F40F.80902@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4468EE9B.4000009@ru.mvista.com>
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Clem Taylor wrote:
>
>> I just switched to 2.6.16.16 from 2.6.14 on a Au1550. I enabled
>> CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME, and for some reason jiffies doesn't start out near
>> zero like it does on x86. The first printk() always seems to have a
>> time of 4284667.296000.
>> jiffies_64 and wall_jiffies gets initialized to INITIAL_JIFFIES, but
>> I'm not sure where jiffies is initialized. INITIAL_JIFFIES is -300*HZ
>> (with some weird casting)
Yes, the casting is weird. I somewat doubt that:
#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long)(unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
u64 jiffies_64 = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
can do the trick of wrapping around 5 mins after boot on x86... :-/
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 20:41 CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME and initial value for jiffies? Clem Taylor
2006-05-15 21:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-05-15 21:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2006-05-16 6:03 ` Herbert Valerio Riedel
2006-05-16 12:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-05-22 16:27 ` Tim Bird
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