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The old way did clamp the jiffy conversion and thus caused the timeouts to become negative after some time. Also it didn't work with userspace which actually fills the upper 32bits of the 64bit timestamp value. clock_gettime() is 32-bit on 32-bit architectures. Using 64-bit timespec math, like we do in this commit, means that when a wrap occurs, the specified timeout goes into the past and we can't request a timeout in the future. As the Linux implementation of CLOCK_MONOTONIC is reasonable and starts at 0, the first such timer wrap will occur after approx. 68 years of system uptime. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.