>ticks = jiffies; while (ticks == jiffies); ticks = jiffies; ?
jiffies is updated by an interrupt routine, I think.
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jiffies is updated by a timer interrupt once every 1/HZ seconds (HZ==100
for i386).
The code intents to start running at the time right after jiffies was
incremented to improve the correctness of the delay calibration loop.
The reason why jiffies is read later is to get the value after the
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