[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] Sched: Change type of 'overrun' from int to u64

Puranjay Mohan puranjay12 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 16:59:08 UTC 2019


Callers of hrtimer_forward_now() should save the return value in u64.
function sched_cfs_period_timer() stores
it in variable 'overrun' of type int
change type of overrun from int to u64 to solve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12 at gmail.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f35930f5e528..c6bcae7d4e49 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4896,7 +4896,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
 	struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b =
 		container_of(timer, struct cfs_bandwidth, period_timer);
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int overrun;
+	u64 overrun;
 	int idle = 0;
 	int count = 0;
 
-- 
2.21.0



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