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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-02-16 09:27:29 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-16 16:13:56 (GMT)
commit9f907c0144496e464bd5ed5a99a51227d63a9c0b (patch)
tree84adb214bab37327d4806ca5d0b91c3ba24c73ad /kernel
parent41cf54455da5e5dc847a9733d49ca23b5e7dd59e (diff)
downloadlinux-9f907c0144496e464bd5ed5a99a51227d63a9c0b.tar.xz
[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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