Re: [PATCH] fix potential jiffies overflow

>>>>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:48:41 -0800, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> said:
>> Well, jiffies will lose 49.7 days...  Then, how about this?  We can
>> sleep 136 years.

akpm> but...

akpm> 	wall_jiffies += sleep_length;

akpm> wall_jiffies is 32-bit.

Yes ...  and I think wall_jiffies can be removed completely (with
update_times() cleanup).  Of course it should not be 2.6.16 material.

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