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sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset

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When a machine boots up, the TSC generally gets reset.  However,
when kexec is used to boot into a kernel, the TSC value would be
carried over from the previous kernel.  The computation of
cycns_offset in set_cyc2ns_scale is prone to an overflow, if the
machine has been up more than 208 days prior to the kexec.  The
overflow happens when we multiply *scale, even though there is
enough room to store the final answer.

We fix this issue by decomposing tsc_now into the quotient and
remainder of division by CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR and then performing
the multiplication separately on the two components.

Refactor code to share the calculation with the previous
fix in __cycles_2_ns().

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310004027.19291.88460.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Salman Qazi
2012-03-09 16:41:01 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 47258cf3c4
commit 9993bc635d
3 changed files with 17 additions and 7 deletions
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} \
)
/*
* Multiplies an integer by a fraction, while avoiding unnecessary
* overflow or loss of precision.
*/
#define mult_frac(x, numer, denom)( \
{ \
typeof(x) quot = (x) / (denom); \
typeof(x) rem = (x) % (denom); \
(quot * (numer)) + ((rem * (numer)) / (denom)); \
} \
)
#define _RET_IP_ (unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0)
#define _THIS_IP_ ({ __label__ __here; __here: (unsigned long)&&__here; })