Re: [PATCH] fix nanosleep() granularity bumps

[Andrew Morton]

george anzinger <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The attached patch is for 2.5.65.  As of this moment, the bk patch has 
> not been posted to the snapshots directory.  I will wait for that to 
> update.

Don't use the snapshots directory.  Use

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/

It is more up to date.

> For what its worth, can someone explain how the add_timer call from 
> run_timers was causing a problem.  The code looks right to me, unless 
> the caller is so nasty as to continue to do the same thing (which 
> would loop forever).

That was the problem.

> In this case, the simple fix is to bump the 
> base->timer_jiffies at the beginning of the loop rather than the end. 
>    This would cause the new timer to be put in the next jiffie instead 
> of the current one AND it is free!

Didn't think of that - I just ported up Andrea's fix.