This one I meant to fix in the kernel fwiw; we can put that loop inside the kernel easily I'm sure
Yes, but it will increase the data size of the timer...
eh how? the way I think it can be done is to just have multiple timers fire until the total time is up. It's not a performance issue (a timer firing every 24 days.. who cares, esp since such long delays are rare anyway) after all...
Sure that works, but you still need to keep info around on when the timer is supposed to expire. This will be at least two words (u64)jiffies_expire_time. This would likly end up in the task struc along with the timer itself.
-- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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