On 01/08/17 09:11, Matija Glavinic Pecotic wrote:
> For e.g. HZ=100, timer being 430 jiffies in the future, and 32 bit
> unsigned int, there is an overflow on unsigned int right-hand side
> of the expression which results with wrong values being returned.
>
> Problem was observed on tickless core and with following applied:
>
> sched/nohz: add debugfs control over sched_tick_max_deferment
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/16/499
>
> Signed-off-by: Matija Glavinic Pecotic <matija.glavinic-pecotic....@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverd...@nokia.com>
> ---
> kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
> index 71ce3f4..8f5d1bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
> @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ u64 get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long basej, u64
> basem)
> base->is_idle = false;
> } else {
> if (!is_max_delta)
> - expires = basem + (nextevt - basej) * TICK_NSEC;
> + expires = basem + (u64)(nextevt - basej) * TICK_NSEC;
> /*
> * If we expect to sleep more than a tick, mark the base idle:
> */
--
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
