From e6c3cffc102923d933cdf2768b3330a49dbb375e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simarpreet Singh Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 13:05:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update timers-1.md --- Timers/timers-1.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Timers/timers-1.md b/Timers/timers-1.md index 7025299..e940d82 100644 --- a/Timers/timers-1.md +++ b/Timers/timers-1.md @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ We just saw initialization of two `jiffies` based clock sources in the previous * standard `jiffies` based clock source; * refined `jiffies` based clock source; -Don't worry if you didn't understand calculations there. They looks frighteningly at first. Soon, step by step we will learn these things. So, we just saw initialization of `jffies` based clock sources and also we know that the Linux kernel has the global variable `jiffies` that holds the number of ticks that have occured since the kernel started to work. Now, let's look how to use it. To use `jiffies` we just can use `jiffies` global variable by its name or with the call of the `get_jiffies_64` function. This function defined in the [kernel/time/jiffies.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/time/jiffies.c) source code file and just returns full full `64-bit` value of the `jiffies`: +Don't worry if you don't understand the calculations here. They look frightening at first. Soon, step by step we will learn these things. So, we just saw initialization of `jffies` based clock sources and also we know that the Linux kernel has the global variable `jiffies` that holds the number of ticks that have occured since the kernel started to work. Now, let's look how to use it. To use `jiffies` we just can use `jiffies` global variable by its name or with the call of the `get_jiffies_64` function. This function defined in the [kernel/time/jiffies.c](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/time/jiffies.c) source code file and just returns full full `64-bit` value of the `jiffies`: ```C u64 get_jiffies_64(void)