Commit 9e7c758e authored by Siddaraju DH's avatar Siddaraju DH Committed by Jonathan Corbet

timekeeping.txt: Correct maxCount of n-bit binary counter

A n-bit binary counter can count a maximum of 2^n events and the count
value ranges from 0 to (2^n)-1
Signed-off-by: default avatarSiddaraju DH <siddarajudh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 701b3a3c
......@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ a Linux system will eventually read the clock source to determine exactly
what time it is.
Typically the clock source is a monotonic, atomic counter which will provide
n bits which count from 0 to 2^(n-1) and then wraps around to 0 and start over.
n bits which count from 0 to (2^n)-1 and then wraps around to 0 and start over.
It will ideally NEVER stop ticking as long as the system is running. It
may stop during system suspend.
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