Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:50:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:50:08 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:57606 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:50:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:00:03 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot Message-ID: <20030216070003.GA17348@wotan.suse.de> References:

<20030216020808.GF9833@krispykreme.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030215225618.538f4c70.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030215225618.538f4c70.akpm@digeo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 18 > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/