Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:53:20 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Its visibile for people doing PAL media processing and TV sync work. > > Longer term we have high precision timers and tickless so for now we can > jut do the HZ == 300 math in steps to avoid the overflow. Slower but in > time it won't matter. >
Just use the patch... I don't think a dependency on bc will be a problem for anyone (but it should, indeed, be documented -- together with everything else we haven't documented yet.)
-hpa
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