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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:00:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030216070003.GA17348@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030215225618.538f4c70.akpm@digeo.com>

> But the point of this patch is to catch jiffy wrap bugs in generic code as
> well as in platform-specific code.
> 
> Doing it for 64-bit platforms as well will give us just that bit more testing
> coverage, and has no cost.  (Well, 8 more bytes of kernel image...)

The 64bit platforms already have enough problems due to 64bit unclean
code. No need to add a new unnecessary ones.

Jiffie wrap is purely a 32bit problem, just like highmem. Please keep 
problems where they belong.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-16  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0302040935230.6174-100000@dragon.pdx.osdl.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302160232120.7975-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20030216020808.GF9833@krispykreme.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-16  6:36     ` [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot Andi Kleen
2003-02-16  6:56       ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-16  7:00         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-02-16  8:10         ` Tim Schmielau
2003-02-04 17:37 [PATCH *] use 64 bit jiffies Randy.Dunlap
2003-02-16  1:37 ` [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot Tim Schmielau
2003-02-16  2:08   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-16  2:43     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-16  2:50       ` Michael Vergoz
2003-02-16  6:37       ` Robert Love
2003-02-16  7:16         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-02-16 11:50           ` Falk Hueffner
2003-02-16 12:04             ` William Lee Irwin III

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