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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:48:59 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@Bull.Net>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Vitezslav Samel <samel@mail.cz>
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [BUG] nanosleep() granularity bumps up in 2.5.64 (was: [PATCH] settimeofday() not synchronised with gettimeofday())
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:34:36PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> I think lines like that from patch-2.5.64 are very suspicious to be
> related to the bug:
> +	base->timer_jiffies = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
> +	base->tv1.index = INITIAL_JIFFIES & TVR_MASK;
> +	base->tv2.index = (INITIAL_JIFFIES >> TVR_BITS) & TVN_MASK;
> +	base->tv3.index = (INITIAL_JIFFIES >> (TVR_BITS+TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK;
> +	base->tv4.index = (INITIAL_JIFFIES >> (TVR_BITS+2*TVN_BITS)) &
> TVN_MASK;
> +	base->tv5.index = (INITIAL_JIFFIES >> (TVR_BITS+3*TVN_BITS)) &
> TVN_MASK;

No, I don't think so.  Those lines are for starting `jiffies' at a very
high number so we spot jiffie-wrap bugs early on.

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