The patch titled pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is pdflush-use-time_after-instead-of-open-coding-it.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/pdflush.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/pdflush.c~pdflush-use-time_after-instead-of-open-coding-it mm/pdflush.c --- a/mm/pdflush.c~pdflush-use-time_after-instead-of-open-coding-it +++ a/mm/pdflush.c @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work * Thread creation: For how long have there been zero * available threads? */ - if (jiffies - last_empty_jifs > 1 * HZ) { + if (time_after(jiffies, last_empty_jifs + 1 * HZ)) { /* unlocked list_empty() test is OK here */ if (list_empty(&pdflush_list)) { /* unlocked test is OK here */ @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work if (nr_pdflush_threads <= MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS) continue; pdf = list_entry(pdflush_list.prev, struct pdflush_work, list); - if (jiffies - pdf->when_i_went_to_sleep > 1 * HZ) { + if (time_after(jiffies, pdf->when_i_went_to_sleep + 1 * HZ)) { /* Limit exit rate */ pdf->when_i_went_to_sleep = jiffies; break; /* exeunt */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are fat-fix-parse_options.patch fat-fix-vfat_ioctl_readdir_xxx-and-cleanup-for-userland.patch fat-dirc-switch-to-struct-__fat_dirent.patch fat-cleanup-fs-fat-dirc.patch fat-use-same-logic-in-fat_search_long-and-__fat_readdir.patch fat-small-optimization-to-__fat_readdir.patch pdflush-use-time_after-instead-of-open-coding-it.patch msdos-fs-remove-unsettable-atari-option.patch fat-dirc-switch-to-struct-__fat_fs_dirent.patch remove-the-in-kernel-struct-dirent64.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html