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Man Page: round_jiffies_up

Operating Environment: centos

Section: 9

ROUND_JIFFIES_UP(9)						   Driver Basics					       ROUND_JIFFIES_UP(9)

NAME
round_jiffies_up - function to round jiffies up to a full second
SYNOPSIS
unsigned long round_jiffies_up(unsigned long j);
ARGUMENTS
j the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
DESCRIPTION
This is the same as round_jiffies except that it will never round down. This is useful for timeouts for which the exact time of firing does not matter too much, as long as they don't fire too early.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 ROUND_JIFFIES_UP(9)
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