[PATCH *] use 64 bit jiffies

Tim Schmielau (tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de)
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:55:40 +0100 (CET)


Just a note that I have rediffed for 2.5.55 the patches that use the 64
bit jiffies value to avoid uptime and process start time wrap after
49.5 days. I will push them Linus-wards when he's back.
They can be retrieved from

http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.5/jiffies64-33a.patch.gz
(1/3: infrastructure)
http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.5/jiffies64-33b.patch.gz
(2/3: fix uptime wrap)
http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.5/jiffies64-33c.patch.gz
(3/3: 64 bit process start time)

For discussion see
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.1/0471.html
and
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.1/0847.html

Tim

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