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From: baruch@tkos.co.il (Baruch Siach)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] time: sched_clock: fix integer overflow
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:59:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729055939.GK5161@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <232c026d1b8d2556679aea56cf77a6811f9a96c5.1374054369.git.baruch@tkos.co.il>

Hi Thomas, John,

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:46:53PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> The expression '(1 << 32)' happens to evaluate as 0 on ARM, but it evaluates as
> 1 on xtensa and x86_64. This zeros sched_clock_mask, and breaks sched_clock().
> Set the type of 1 to 'unsigned long long' to get the value we need.

Ping? -rc3 is out, and this bug (which currently breaks xtensa) is not fixed 
yet. Please consider applying.

baruch

> Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> ---
>  kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
> index a326f27..0b479a6 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/sched_clock.c
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ void __init setup_sched_clock(u32 (*read)(void), int bits, unsigned long rate)
>  	BUG_ON(bits > 32);
>  	WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
>  	read_sched_clock = read;
> -	sched_clock_mask = (1 << bits) - 1;
> +	sched_clock_mask = (1ULL << bits) - 1;
>  	cd.rate = rate;
>  
>  	/* calculate the mult/shift to convert counter ticks to ns. */
> -- 

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-29  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-17  9:46 [PATCH] time: sched_clock: fix integer overflow Baruch Siach
2013-07-29  5:59 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2013-07-29 18:41   ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-12  3:03   ` [Linux-Xtensa] " Baruch Siach

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