Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Dec 01 2007 - 20:53:59 EST
Alan Cox wrote:
Its visibile for people doing PAL media processing and TV sync work.
Longer term we have high precision timers and tickless so for now we can
jut do the HZ == 300 math in steps to avoid the overflow. Slower but in
time it won't matter.
Just use the patch... I don't think a dependency on bc will be a problem
for anyone (but it should, indeed, be documented -- together with
everything else we haven't documented yet.)
-hpa
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