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The ___ratelimit() function special-cases the jiffies-counter value of zero as "uninitialized". This works well on 64-bit systems, where the jiffies counter is not going to return to zero for more than half a billion years on systems with HZ=1000, but similar 32-bit systems take less than 50 days to wrap the jiffies counter. And although the consequences of wrapping the jiffies counter seem to be limited to minor confusion on the duration of the rate-limiting interval that happens to end at time zero, it is almost no work to avoid this confusion. Therefore, introduce a RATELIMIT_INITIALIZED bit to the ratelimit_state structure's ->flags field so that a ->begin value of zero is no longer special. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fbe93a52-365e-47fe-93a4-44a44547d601@paulmck-laptop/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250423115409.3425-1-spasswolf@web.de/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Linux kernel
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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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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.