From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:47:39 +0200
> get_next_timer_interrupt() returns a delta of (LONG_MAX > 1) in case
> there is no timer pending. On 64 bit machines this results in a
> multiplication overflow in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick().
>
> Reported by: Dave Miller <[email protected]>
>
> Make the return value a constant and limit the return value to a 32 bit
> value.
>
> When the max timeout value is returned, we can safely stop the tick
> timer device. The max jiffies delta results in a 12 days timeout for
> HZ=1000.
>
> In the long term the get_next_timer_interrupt() code needs to be
> reworked to return ktime instead of jiffies, but we have to wait until
> the last users of the original NO_IDLE_HZ code are converted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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