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Subject[PATCH] fix potential jiffies overflow
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I found i386 timer_resume is updating jiffies, not jiffies_64.  It
looks there is a potential overflow problem. Is this a correct fix?

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/time.c b/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
index a14d594..e4ed172 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/time.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static int timer_resume(struct sys_devic
xtime.tv_sec = sec;
xtime.tv_nsec = 0;
write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
- jiffies += sleep_length;
+ jiffies_64 += sleep_length;
wall_jiffies += sleep_length;
if (last_timer->resume)
last_timer->resume();
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