Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751270AbWIBSkn (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751268AbWIBSkn (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:40:43 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:19942 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270AbWIBSkm (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 14:40:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Frank v Waveren Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , LKML In-Reply-To: <20060902110445.GC3335@var.cx> References: <1156927468.29250.113.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060831204612.73ed7f33.akpm@osdl.org> <20060902110445.GC3335@var.cx> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:44:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1157222679.29250.386.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 20 On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 13:04 +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote: > Here's a different patch, which should actually sleep for the > specified amount of time up to 2^64 seconds with a loop around the > sleeps and a tally of how long is left to sleep. It does mean we wake > up once every 300 years on long sleeps, but that shouldn't cause any > huge performance problems. Which non academic problem is solved by this patch ? tglx -- VGER BF report: U 0.491521 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/