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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: time is ulong
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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Date: 21 Mar 2003 13:35:34 -0800
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  > -#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
  > +#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long) (-300*HZ))

My understanding is that this (unsigned int) is intentional.  The goal
is for only the low 32 bits of jiffies to overflow, even on 64 bit
architectures.

 - Roland
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