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From"Matt H." <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.7-bk way too fast
DateMon, 21 Jun 2004 02:17:26 -0700
Andrew,

That fixes it perfectly here, 

Thanks.

Matt H.

On Monday 21 June 2004 1:48 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Something is definitely screwy with the latest -bk.
>
> Would you believe that there is a totally separate bug in the latest -mm
> which has exactly the same symptoms?
>
> mark_offset_tsc() does
>
> 	if (lost && abs(delay - delay_at_last_interrupt) > (900000/HZ))
> 		jiffies_64++;
>
> which is doing abs(unsigned long).
>
> Which works OK if abs() in a function, but I made it a macro.
>
> This fixes it up.
>
>
> diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~abs-fix-fix include/linux/kernel.h
> --- 25/include/linux/kernel.h~abs-fix-fix	2004-06-21 01:42:24.283873616
> -0700 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/kernel.h	2004-06-21 01:43:08.150204920
> -0700 @@ -55,7 +55,12 @@ void __might_sleep(char *file, int line)
>  #endif
>
>  #define abs(x) ({				\
> -		typeof(x) __x = (x);		\
> +		int __x = (x);			\
> +		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
> +	})
> +
> +#define labs(x) ({				\
> +		long __x = (x);			\
>  		(__x < 0) ? -__x : __x;		\
>  	})
>
> _
>
> -
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