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由 John Stultz 提交于
When calculating the current delta since the last tick, we currently have no hard protections to prevent a multiplication overflow from occuring. This patch introduces infrastructure to allow a cap that limits the clocksource read delta value to the 'max_cycles' value, which is where an overflow would occur. Since this is in the hotpath, it adds the extra checking under CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING=y. There was some concern that capping time like this could cause problems as we may stop expiring timers, which could go circular if the timer that triggers time accumulation were mis-scheduled too far in the future, which would cause time to stop. However, since the mult overflow would result in a smaller time value, we would effectively have the same problem there. Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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