On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:31:14PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:36, Todd Poynor wrote:

quoted

+       jiffies += rtc_secs_elapsed * HZ;

If jiffies is jumped forward then can kernel events (such as those
waiting on a kernel timer) be missed?

I certainly *hope* the check is >= rather than == ... :)

They all should in fact be using time_after(...) or so, to deal
correctly with a jiffies wrap.  But from what I recall of doing a
massive kick of the jiffies (to test some jiffies wrap thing) in early
2.4 I believe, things can become somewhat unhappy.  Think of a device
which happens to be 'sleeping' while the user is on vacation or so.

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