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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-02-16 01:27:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-16 08:13:56 -0800
commit9f907c0144496e464bd5ed5a99a51227d63a9c0b (patch)
tree84adb214bab37327d4806ca5d0b91c3ba24c73ad /kernel/timer.c
parent41cf54455da5e5dc847a9733d49ca23b5e7dd59e (diff)
[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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