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authorGuillaume Knispel <gknispel@proformatique.com>2009-03-17 16:18:42 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-17 16:25:28 +0100
commitf2d28a2ebcb525a6ec7e2152106ddb385ef52b73 (patch)
tree207920700ba3c7c7091d547184c883e7bd05a2a8 /kernel/printk.c
parent47239561e39bceefecc3cd67f71fcf86a198a8ff (diff)
printk: correct the behavior of printk_timed_ratelimit()
Impact: fix jiffies-comparison sign-wrap behavior The behavior provided by printk_timed_ratelimit() is, in some situations, probably not what a caller would reasonably expect: bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, unsigned int interval_msecs) { if (*caller_jiffies == 0 || time_after(jiffies, *caller_jiffies)) { *caller_jiffies = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs); return true; } return false; } On a 32 bit computer, if printk_timed_ratelimit() is initially called at time jiffies == Ja, *caller_jiffies is set to Ja + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs): let's say Ja + 42 for this example. If this caller then doesn't call printk_timed_ratelimit() until jiffies == Ja + (1 << 31) + 42 (which can happen as soon as ~ 25 days later on a 1000 HZ system), printk_timed_ratelimit() will then always return false to this caller until jiffies loops completely (1 << 31 more ticks). Ths change makes it only return false if jiffies is in the small time window starting at the previous call when true was returned and ending interval_msecs later. Note that if jiffies loops completely between two calls to printk_timed_ratelimit(), it will obviously still wrongly return false, but this is something with a low probability. If something completely reliable is needed I guess jiffies_64 must be used (which this change does not do). Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <gknispel@proformatique.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20090317161842.0059096b@xilun.lan.proformatique.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index e3602d0755b0..2be719908d1f 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1292,8 +1292,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_ratelimit);
bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
unsigned int interval_msecs)
{
- if (*caller_jiffies == 0 || time_after(jiffies, *caller_jiffies)) {
- *caller_jiffies = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs);
+ if (*caller_jiffies == 0
+ || !time_in_range(jiffies, *caller_jiffies,
+ *caller_jiffies
+ + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs))) {
+ *caller_jiffies = jiffies;
return true;
}
return false;