diff for duplicates of <20071222185822.80bd4540.akpm@linux-foundation.org> diff --git a/a/1.txt b/N1/1.txt index 7713ec0..f338ed7 100644 --- a/a/1.txt +++ b/N1/1.txt @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:53:23 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds -> is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we +> is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ = 300, we > currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening > result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the -> fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and +> fraction is not simplified (for HZ = 300, we multiply by 300 and > divide by 1000). > > This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), diff --git a/a/content_digest b/N1/content_digest index 1f05ac3..0c3ea7f 100644 --- a/a/content_digest +++ b/N1/content_digest @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "ref\0200712180541.lBI5fnqB028037@tazenda.hos.anvin.org\0" "From\0Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>\0" "Subject\0Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c (version 5)\0" - "Date\0Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:58:22 -0800\0" + "Date\0Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:58:22 +0000\0" "To\0H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>\0" "Cc\0Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>" Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ "On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:53:23 -0800 \"H. Peter Anvin\" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:\n" "\n" "> When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds\n" - "> is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we\n" + "> is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ = 300, we\n" "> currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening\n" "> result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the\n" - "> fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and\n" + "> fraction is not simplified (for HZ = 300, we multiply by 300 and\n" "> divide by 1000).\n" "> \n" "> This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(),\n" @@ -61,4 +61,4 @@ "kernel/time.c: In function 'jiffies_to_msecs':\n" kernel/time.c:251: warning: control reaches end of non-void function -2e83d753510ab59b6904a4dd674ef550b227972068f599b05ffc78015bf40ce7 +5e90880bf70ba08faa2218bd8f3bb3b0bf05c8604c274c61532f1aaa30276631
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