Re: [timer] max timeout

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Wed, 23 May 2001 16:38:43 +0200

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 04:28:01PM +0200, sebastien person wrote:
> Is it bad to do the following call ?
>
> mod_timer(&timer, jiffies+(0.1*HZ));

Yes very bad. gcc will generate a floating point add for that, corrupting
the user process' floating point context.

-Andi

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