Re: [PATCH] fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to handle overflow

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 09.02.11 at 21:54, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be
>> quite large by the time the kernel init gets this far.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as per suggestion from Jiri Slaby.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> So I have nothing against the patch, but the changelog is broken.
> 
> Is Tim the original author? If so, why wasn't that noted? I'm just
> guessing from that random signed-off line in the middle of the thing.

Indeed, I forgot to add the From: line. I'm sorry about that; I'll
resubmit.

Jan

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