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Message-Id: <200807111705.49840.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:05:49 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, pavel@....cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix try_to_freeze_tasks()'s use of do_div()

On Friday, 11 of July 2008, David Howells wrote:
> Fix try_to_freeze_tasks()'s use of do_div() on an s64 by making elapsed_csecs64
> a u64 instead and dividing that.
> 
> Possibly this should be guarded lest the interval calculation turn up negative,
> but the possible negativity of the result of the division is cast away anyway.
> 
> This was introduced by patch 438e2ce68dfd4af4cfcec2f873564fb921db4bb5.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

> ---
> 
>  kernel/power/process.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/power/process.c b/kernel/power/process.c
> index 5fb8765..278946a 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/process.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/process.c
> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static int try_to_freeze_tasks(bool sig_only)
>  	unsigned long end_time;
>  	unsigned int todo;
>  	struct timeval start, end;
> -	s64 elapsed_csecs64;
> +	u64 elapsed_csecs64;
>  	unsigned int elapsed_csecs;
>  
>  	do_gettimeofday(&start);
> 
> 
> 


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