[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index 9243cef..c080f61 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@
*
* And some not so obvious.
*
- * Note that we don't want to return MAX_LONG, because
+ * Note that we don't want to return LONG_MAX, because
* for various timeout reasons we often end up having
* to wait "jiffies+1" in order to guarantee that we wait
* at _least_ "jiffies" - so "jiffies+1" had better still
* be positive.
*/
-#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((~0UL >> 1)-1)
+#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >> 1)-1)
/*
* We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same