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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2007-02-16 01:27:29 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-16 08:13:56 -0800 |
| commit | 9f907c0144496e464bd5ed5a99a51227d63a9c0b (patch) | |
| tree | 84adb214bab37327d4806ca5d0b91c3ba24c73ad /kernel/timer.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffies (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Fix timeout overflow with jiffies
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@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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