Re: [PATCH] libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset miscalculation

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:04:43PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:

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> Hello Johannes,
> 
> I think the above code will miscalculate seconds_since_last_reset if 
> 'jiffies' wraps around after an lport has been created and before 
> seconds_since_last_reset is computed. Shouldn't seconds_since_last_reset 
> be computed as follows?
> 
> 	fc_stats->seconds_since_last_reset = (jiffies - boot_time) / HZ;

But what happens when jiffies - boot_time becomes negative? Then we
reintroduce the bug again and have 'fcoeadm -s' show weird values.

Byte,
	Johannes
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