The patch titled
     init/calibrate.c: fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to 
handle overflow
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     
init-calibratec-fix-jiffy-calculations-in-calibrate_delay_direct-to-handle-overflow.patch

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Subject: init/calibrate.c: fix jiffy calculations in calibrate_delay_direct to 
handle overflow
From: Tim Deegan <[email protected]>

Fixes a hang when booting as dom0 under Xen, when jiffies can be quite
large by the time the kernel init gets this far.

[[email protected]: !time_after() -> time_before_eq() as suggested by Jiri 
Slaby]
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 init/calibrate.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
init/calibrate.c~init-calibratec-fix-jiffy-calculations-in-calibrate_delay_direct-to-handle-overflow
 init/calibrate.c
--- 
a/init/calibrate.c~init-calibratec-fix-jiffy-calculations-in-calibrate_delay_direct-to-handle-overflow
+++ a/init/calibrate.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate
                pre_start = 0;
                read_current_timer(&start);
                start_jiffies = jiffies;
-               while (jiffies <= (start_jiffies + 1)) {
+               while (time_before_eq(jiffies, start_jiffies + 1)) {
                        pre_start = start;
                        read_current_timer(&start);
                }
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ static unsigned long __cpuinit calibrate
 
                pre_end = 0;
                end = post_start;
-               while (jiffies <=
-                      (start_jiffies + 1 + DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS)) {
+               while (time_before_eq(jiffies, start_jiffies + 1 +
+                                              DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS)) {
                        pre_end = end;
                        read_current_timer(&end);
                }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

init-calibratec-fix-jiffy-calculations-in-calibrate_delay_direct-to-handle-overflow.patch

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