Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751957AbWICDMy (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:12:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751958AbWICDMx (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:12:53 -0400 Received: from adsl-230-146.dsl.uva.nl ([146.50.230.146]:54939 "EHLO pan.var.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957AbWICDMx (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:12:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:13:03 +0200 From: Frank v Waveren To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Paul Eggert Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow Message-ID: <20060903031303.GA26881@var.cx> References: <1156927468.29250.113.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060831204612.73ed7f33.akpm@osdl.org> <20060902110445.GC3335@var.cx> <1157222679.29250.386.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1157222679.29250.386.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1839 Lines: 48 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:44:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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 ? Compared to a current linus kernel, it fixes the overflow problem. Compared to the current mm (good job on finding the sneaky bug in that one by the way) it doesn't fix anything additional, but still fixes all of the same things plus the academic problems. And it makes the GNU coreutils people happy, which is rarely a bad thing. --=20 Frank v Waveren Key fingerprint: BDD7 D61E fvw@var.cx 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE+kg/+gB9UUaNYsgRAsU1AJ0VsGX0Nsyz6l5MZxMiKFihI7mqjACePlWa TK3EH8bZRMjcttaSkD6Ezhs= =s0p1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7-- -- VGER BF report: H 0.000448983 - 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/