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clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:36:57 +0000 (21:36 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:44:42 +0000 (19:44 -0700)
commitfbbece349081a689d5687d9ebc769a847fdf423a
tree63624f2c095af45a530965aff76c77be0d401a81
parent6141266c43db890ada7df589358b8553de2e6322
clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler

commit d4496b39559c6d43f83e4c08b899984f8b8089b5 upstream

The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken,
when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code
stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field
only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in
question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value
and therefor never increases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c