The patch titled
time: fix timeout overflow
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
time-fix-timeout-overflow.patch
This patch was dropped because the irq changes broke ir
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Subject: time: fix timeout overflow
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Prevent timeout overflow if timer ticks are behind jiffies (due to high
softirq load or due to dyntick), by limiting the valid timeout range to
MAX_LONG/2.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/jiffies.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/jiffies.h~time-fix-timeout-overflow include/linux/jiffies.h
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h~time-fix-timeout-overflow
+++ a/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
*
* And some not so obvious.
*
- * Note that we don't want to return MAX_LONG, because
+ * Note that we don't want to return LONG_MAX, because
* for various timeout reasons we often end up having
* to wait "jiffies+1" in order to guarantee that we wait
* at _least_ "jiffies" - so "jiffies+1" had better still
* be positive.
*/
-#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((~0UL >> 1)-1)
+#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >> 1)-1)
/*
* We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-netdev-all.patch
bonding-lockdep-annotation.patch
spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace.patch
spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix.patch
spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix-2.patch
spinlock-debug-all-cpu-backtrace-fix-3.patch
remove-the-old-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch
new-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch
sched-likely-profiling.patch
sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
sched-cleanup-remove-task_t-convert-to-struct-task_struct-prefetch.patch
time-fix-timeout-overflow.patch
cleanup-uninline-irq_enter-and-move-it-into-a.patch
dynticks-extend-next_timer_interrupt-to-use-a.patch
hrtimers-namespace-and-enum-cleanup.patch
hrtimers-clean-up-locking.patch
hrtimers-state-tracking.patch
hrtimers-clean-up-callback-tracking.patch
hrtimers-move-and-add-documentation.patch
clockevents-core.patch
clockevents-drivers-for-i386.patch
high-res-timers-core.patch
gtod-mark-tsc-unusable-for-highres-timers.patch
dynticks-core.patch
dyntick-add-nohz-stats-to-proc-stat.patch
dynticks-i386-arch-code.patch
high-res-timers-dynticks-enable-i386-support.patch
debugging-feature-timer-stats.patch
detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch
debug-shared-irqs.patch
make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch
vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch
vdso-improve-print_fatal_signals-support-by-adding-memory-maps.patch
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