Re: [2.6.28-rc1 regression] wmifinfo dockapp takes 100% of cpu (bisected)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:38:22 -0700 "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:03:27 +0200
> > Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >           if (copy_from_user(&tv, tvp, sizeof(tv)))
> >> > >                   return -EFAULT;
> >> > >
> >> > > +         while (tv.tv_usec > USEC_PER_SEC && i < 1000) {
> >>                                   ^
> >> should be >=
> >
> > yeah thanks for catching that. Note to self: don't code before coffee
> >
> > I'm not very happy with a while loop; but at least it solves the problem
> >
> > I'll try to make it nicer than this ...
> 
> Regardless, you may wish to make a set_normalized_timeval and place it
> in kernel/time.c right after the current set_nromalized_timespec.

Yes, this comes up fairly regularly and we would benefit from having a
normalize-a-timeval library function.

I don't think it should be implemented via a while loop though.  That's
acceptable with timespecs, which can only loop four or so times.  But
timevals use microseconds and can loop thousands of times and hence a
normalization function should use division.