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authorSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>2012-03-09 16:41:01 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-03-13 16:27:51 +0100
commit9993bc635d01a6ee7f6b833b4ee65ce7c06350b1 (patch)
tree9e40c69ef513fc0a57c03a05a68afc6711418ed8 /include/linux/sched.h
parent47258cf3c4aa5d56e678bafe0dd0d03ddd980b88 (diff)
sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset. However, when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be carried over from the previous kernel. The computation of cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec. The overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is enough room to store the final answer. We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing the multiplication separately on the two components. Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous fix in __cycles_2_ns(). Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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