linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

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Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:53:20 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

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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