[BUG & WORKAROUND] nanosleep() granularity bumps up in 2.5.64

[Tim Schmielau]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tim Schmielau wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Vitezslav Samel wrote:
>
> >   The nanosleep() bug narrowed down to 2.5.63-bk2. That's version, the "initial
> > jiffies" patch went in. And yes, it's on i686 machine.
>
> You can easily check whether it's connected with this change by setting
> INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero. This should exactly recover the previous
> situation.

OK. I've done the test myself and I plead guilty. As a temporary
workaround you can apply the following patch:

--- linux-2.5.64/include/linux/time.h.orig	Wed Mar  5 04:29:24 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64/include/linux/time.h	Mon Mar 17 20:31:06 2003
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * Have the 32 bit jiffies value wrap 5 minutes after boot
  * so jiffies wrap bugs show up earlier.
  */
-#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
+#define INITIAL_JIFFIES 0

 /*
  * Change timeval to jiffies, trying to avoid the

Still, after half an hour of glancing at the code I can't see my mistake.
I've re-checked that the problem does not occur with the original "initial
jiffies" patch for 2.4. So I must have missed a (subtle?) difference
between 2.4 and 2.5 when I did the forward-port.

Sorry,
Tim