Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:13 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Fun, here is a version with a bigabyte blocker.
> 
> Your patch triggers waaaaaaay early.
> 
> netconsole: remote IP 192.168.2.33
> netconsole: remote ethernet address 00:0d:56:c6:c6:cc
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> time.c: Using 14.318180 MHz WALL HPET GTOD HPET/TSC timer.
> time.c: Detected 3400.238 MHz processor.
> ktime_set: -1157140842 : 0

-------------^   !!!!!!!

> BUG: warning at include/linux/ktime.h:84/ktime_set()
> 
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ> [<ffffffff80247021>] hrtimer_run_queues+0x10e/0x211

This seems to happen inside hrtimer_get_softirq_time().
wall_to_monotonic is negative.

Why does the check trigger ? We compare a "long", which contains a
negative value against some positive constant. 

ktime_t ktime_set(const long secs, const unsigned long nsecs)
{
	if (unlikely(secs >= KTIME_SEC_MAX)) {

where KTIME_SEC_MAX is 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF / 1000 000 000 = 

9223372036 == 0x225C17D04,

which is compared against 

-1157140842 == 0xFFFFFFFFBB076E96

This smells like gcc magic. Can you please disassemble the code in
question ?

> I wonder if this is related to the occasional hrtimr_run_queues() lockup
> which Andi is encountering.

Hmm, not sure.

	tglx



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