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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:05:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111031304210.2829@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320264087-3413-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, John Stultz wrote:
>  
> +	WARN_ONCE(timekeeper.mult+adj >
> +			timekeeper.clock->mult + timekeeper.clock->maxadj,
> +			"Adjusting more then 11%%");

Shouldn't we rather limit the update instead of just warn and overflow ?

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-02 20:01 [PATCH] clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted John Stultz
2011-11-03  3:10 ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-03  9:36   ` Américo Wang
2011-11-04  2:16     ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-03 12:05 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-11-03 13:10   ` John Stultz
2011-11-03 13:26     ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-11-03 14:01       ` John Stultz
2011-11-03 14:09         ` John Stultz
2011-11-03 14:49           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-11-03 14:52             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-11-03 15:14               ` John Stultz
2011-11-03 21:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-11-04 13:11   ` John Stultz
2011-11-04 15:20     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-11-08  3:09   ` John Stultz
2011-11-08  3:11     ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-08  5:02     ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-08 21:39       ` John Stultz
2011-11-09  1:46         ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-10 15:05           ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-09  2:08 John Stultz

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