From: George Anzinger In case of a negative nsec value the result of the division must be normalized. Remove inline from an exported function. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Index: linux-2.6.15/kernel/time.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.15.orig/kernel/time.c +++ linux-2.6.15/kernel/time.c @@ -658,15 +658,16 @@ void set_normalized_timespec(struct time * * Returns the timespec representation of the nsec parameter. */ -inline struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec) +struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec) { struct timespec ts; - if (nsec) - ts.tv_sec = div_long_long_rem_signed(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, - &ts.tv_nsec); - else - ts.tv_sec = ts.tv_nsec = 0; + if (!nsec) + return (struct timespec) {0, 0}; + + ts.tv_sec = div_long_long_rem_signed(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ts.tv_nsec); + if (unlikely(nsec < 0)) + set_normalized_timespec(&ts, ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec); return ts; } --