Commit 70a06228 authored by Tim Deegan's avatar Tim Deegan Committed by Linus Torvalds

fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow

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: default avatarTim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
[jbeulich@novell.com: !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as suggested by Jiri Slaby]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6148a47a
......@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate_delay_direct(void)
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_delay_direct(void)
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);
}
......
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