diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index 9243cefa45123bb08dad178412ee9fedbc7ee85f..c080f61fb024fb053e111a8878d9c7b12788c001 100644
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ static inline u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
  *
  * And some not so obvious.
  *
- * Note that we don't want to return MAX_LONG, because
+ * Note that we don't want to return LONG_MAX, because
  * for various timeout reasons we often end up having
  * to wait "jiffies+1" in order to guarantee that we wait
  * at _least_ "jiffies" - so "jiffies+1" had better still
  * be positive.
  */
-#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((~0UL >> 1)-1)
+#define MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET ((LONG_MAX >> 1)-1)
 
 /*
  * We want to do realistic conversions of time so we need to use the same