Re: [RFC][PATCH] Use proper casting with signed timespec.tv_nsecvalues

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, john stultz wrote:

> 	I recently ran into a bug with an older kernel where xtime's tv_nsec
> field had accumulated more then 2 seconds worth of time. The timespec's
> tv_nsec is a signed long, however gettimeofday() treats it as an
> unsigned long. Thus when the failure occured, very strange and difficult
> to debug time problems occurred.

How can that happen? I think the source of the problem needs to be fixed. 
The fix is only going decrease the likelyhood of the problem occurring.

We may need special measures if the system was frozen for some 
reason for longer than a certain time period.

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