Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752876Ab1BIIaz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 03:30:55 -0500 Received: from vpn.id2.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:36829 "EHLO vpn.id2.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555Ab1BIIay convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 03:30:54 -0500 Message-Id: <4D525EF00200007800030F0F@vpn.id2.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:31:28 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: , "Linus Torvalds" Cc: "Tim Deegan" , "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , "Jiri Slaby" , Subject: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1412 Lines: 45 Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far. Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as per suggestion from Jiri Slaby. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge --- init/calibrate.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- 2.6.38-rc4/init/calibrate.c +++ 2.6.38-rc4-calibrate-jiffy-overflow/init/calibrate.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate pre_start = 0; read_current_timer(&start); start_jiffies = jiffies; - while (jiffies <= (start_jiffies + 1)) { + while (time_before_eq(jiffies, start_jiffies + 1)) { pre_start = start; read_current_timer(&start); } @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate pre_end = 0; end = post_start; - while (jiffies <= - (start_jiffies + 1 + DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS)) { + while (time_before_eq(jiffies, start_jiffies + 1 + + DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS)) { pre_end = end; read_current_timer(&end); } -- 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/