On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 16:38 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:17:47 -0700 Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > > We could perhaps have a checkpatch rule
> > > which looks for comparisons against jiffes (and any other
> > > time-measuring variables we can detect)
> >
> > other variables like?
>
> Grepping for time_after finds a bunch. There's no real pattern to it though.
get_jiffies_64() should probably be added as
another test too.
Also, these might be wrong:
arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c: while (get_jiffies_64() < waitjiffies)
arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c: while (get_jiffies_64() < waitjiffies)
fs/fuse/dir.c: else if (fuse_dentry_time(entry) < get_jiffies_64()) {
fs/fuse/dir.c: if (fi->i_time < get_jiffies_64()) {
fs/fuse/dir.c: if (fi->i_time < get_jiffies_64()) {
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