kernel-ark/kernel/time
Thomas Gleixner eaad084bb0 NOHZ: prevent multiplication overflow - stop timer for huge timeouts
get_next_timer_interrupt() returns a delta of (LONG_MAX > 1) in case
there is no timer pending. On 64 bit machines this results in a
multiplication overflow in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().

Reported by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Make the return value a constant and limit the return value to a 32 bit
value.

When the max timeout value is returned, we can safely stop the tick
timer device. The max jiffies delta results in a 12 days timeout for
HZ=1000.

In the long term the get_next_timer_interrupt() code needs to be
reworked to return ktime instead of jiffies, but we have to wait until
the last users of the original NO_IDLE_HZ code are converted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-29 18:11:10 -07:00
..
clockevents.c
clocksource.c
jiffies.c
Kconfig
Makefile
ntp.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
tick-broadcast.c Ignore bogus ACPI info for offline CPUs 2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
tick-common.c
tick-internal.h
tick-oneshot.c
tick-sched.c NOHZ: prevent multiplication overflow - stop timer for huge timeouts 2007-05-29 18:11:10 -07:00
timekeeping.c
timer_list.c
timer_stats.c