From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:55:10 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86: Derandom delay_tsc for 64 bit X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~8009 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7f4255f906f60f72e00aad2fb000939449ff32e;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git x86: Derandom delay_tsc for 64 bit Commit f0fbf0abc093 ("x86: integrate delay functions") converted delay_tsc() into a random delay generator for 64 bit. The reason is that it merged the mostly identical versions of delay_32.c and delay_64.c. Though the subtle difference of the result was: static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops) { - unsigned bclock, now; + unsigned long bclock, now; Now the function uses rdtscl() which returns the lower 32bit of the TSC. On 32bit that's not problematic as unsigned long is 32bit. On 64 bit this fails when the lower 32bit are close to wrap around when bclock is read, because the following check if ((now - bclock) >= loops) break; evaluated to true on 64bit for e.g. bclock = 0xffffffff and now = 0 because the unsigned long (now - bclock) of these values results in 0xffffffff00000001 which is definitely larger than the loops value. That explains Tvortkos observation: "Because I am seeing udelay(500) (_occasionally_) being short, and that by delaying for some duration between 0us (yep) and 491us." Make those variables explicitely u32 again, so this works for both 32 and 64 bit. Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.27 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c index fc45ba8..e395693 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/delay.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/delay.c @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ static void delay_loop(unsigned long loops) } /* TSC based delay: */ -static void delay_tsc(unsigned long loops) +static void delay_tsc(unsigned long __loops) { - unsigned long bclock, now; + u32 bclock, now, loops = __loops; int cpu; preempt_disable();