]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:56:10 +0000 (14:56 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:53:23 +0000 (13:53 -0800)
commitbbe520ae8b0042af8bf4cebe61a860b318f40314
tree7abd76778615f4f4a2dce235aef2f8ab790ba7a8
parenta979c54ee6bac03999183e1c6aa9dea193be98ca
fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show

commit c3e0ef9a298e028a82ada28101ccd5cf64d209ee upstream.

For 32-bit architectures using standard jiffies the idletime calculation
in uptime_proc_show will quickly overflow. It takes (2^32 / HZ) seconds
of idle-time, or e.g. 12.45 days with no load on a quad-core with HZ=1000.
Switch to 64-bit calculations.

Cc: Michael Abbott <michael.abbott@diamond.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/proc/uptime.c