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From: Daniel Church <dchurch@andplus.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow, adds DELAYTIMER_MAX
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:48:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422121737-3686-1-git-send-email-dchurch@andplus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[PATCH 0/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow, adds DELAYTIMER_MAX>

If a timer overruns too many times before a call to timer_getoverrun the
overrun count can overflow and go negative.  POSIX.1-2001 specification
of timer_getoverrun() supports constant DELAYTIMER_MAX which prevents
overflow and caps overrun count.  Adds delaytimer_max value, caps
overrun count, and exposes value to userland via
/proc/sys/kernel/delaytimer_max.

Resolves https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12665 - POSIX timers API does not support DELAYTIMER_MAX

v2: Consolidates overflow logic into helper function as suggested by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


       reply	other threads:[~2015-01-24 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[PATCH 0/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow, adds DELAYTIMER_MAX>
2015-01-24 17:48 ` Daniel Church [this message]
2015-01-24 17:48   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow Daniel Church
2015-01-24 18:17     ` Richard Cochran
2015-01-24 19:14     ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-01-24 19:37     ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-01-24 17:48   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] posix-timers: Exposes DELAYTIMER_MAX constant used to govern overruns Daniel Church
2015-01-24 19:20     ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-01-24 19:36       ` Carlos O'Donell

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