From bdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:21:26 -0800 Subject: avoid overflows in kernel/time.c When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000). This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for example. This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on 32-bit platforms. When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on 64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g. on 64-bit s390), but since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000). The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half of the valid output range. This could be avoided at the expense of having to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result. Since the intent is to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff. At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel compiles. This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0. In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table. Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the Makefile. Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the sh tree. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ralf Baechle , Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Cc: Paul Mundt , Cc: Richard Henderson , Cc: Michael Starvik , Cc: David Howells , Cc: Yoshinori Sato , Cc: Hirokazu Takata , Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Cc: Roman Zippel , Cc: William L. Irwin , Cc: Chris Zankel , Cc: H. Peter Anvin , Cc: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-h8300/param.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-h8300') diff --git a/include/asm-h8300/param.h b/include/asm-h8300/param.h index c25806e..04f64f1 100644 --- a/include/asm-h8300/param.h +++ b/include/asm-h8300/param.h @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ #ifndef HZ -#define HZ 100 +#define HZ CONFIG_HZ #endif #ifdef __KERNEL__ -- cgit v1.1