Re: jiffies wrap question...

2000-11-09 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:21:28AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The following is a piece of code from the latter half of > schedule_timeout, in kernel/sched.c. Is it possible that > schedule_timeout could return an incorrect value, if the jiffy value > wraps between the first and last lines shown

jiffies wrap question...

2000-11-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
The following is a piece of code from the latter half of schedule_timeout, in kernel/sched.c. Is it possible that schedule_timeout could return an incorrect value, if the jiffy value wraps between the first and last lines shown below. expire = timeout + jiffies; init_timer(&time