> The one that really worries me is having the "jiffies" wrap around,
> an event which will happen every 17 months or so on production systems.
>
> A *lot* of the kernel will malfunction when that happens.
I would hope not. We always do diff = jiffies - oldtime; GCC handles
the wrap correctly (look at the asm output) if all are the same unsigned
type. What else could go wrong?