Re: Can jiffies freeze?

2013-01-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:05:25 +0800, bill4carson said: Hmmm, all the boot messages are routed into a buffer it first printed into console, here there is no delay, possible tick timer are not setup yet. But when it does get printed into the console, this process could be interrupted by other

Re: Can jiffies freeze?

2013-01-23 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:36 AM, sandeep kumar coolsandyfor...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Anish, Mulyadi, this is how i read jiffies. unsigned long start_time, end_time; start_time = jiffies; free_area(***); end_time = jiffies; printk(%ld, end_time-start_time); I onserved jiffies getting