2.6.37-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

commit 0781b909b5586f4db720b5d1838b78f9d8e42f14 upstream.

commit 95aac7b1cd224f ("epoll: make epoll_wait() use the hrtimer range
feature") added a performance regression because it uses timespec_add_ns()
with potential very large 'ns' values.

[[email protected]: s/epoll_set_mstimeout/ep_set_mstimeout/, per Davide]
Reported-by: Simon Kirby <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Shawn Bohrer <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/eventpoll.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1111,6 +1111,17 @@ static int ep_send_events(struct eventpo
        return ep_scan_ready_list(ep, ep_send_events_proc, &esed);
 }
 
+static inline struct timespec ep_set_mstimeout(long ms)
+{
+       struct timespec now, ts = {
+               .tv_sec = ms / MSEC_PER_SEC,
+               .tv_nsec = NSEC_PER_MSEC * (ms % MSEC_PER_SEC),
+       };
+
+       ktime_get_ts(&now);
+       return timespec_add_safe(now, ts);
+}
+
 static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event __user *events,
                   int maxevents, long timeout)
 {
@@ -1118,12 +1129,11 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep,
        unsigned long flags;
        long slack;
        wait_queue_t wait;
-       struct timespec end_time;
        ktime_t expires, *to = NULL;
 
        if (timeout > 0) {
-               ktime_get_ts(&end_time);
-               timespec_add_ns(&end_time, (u64)timeout * NSEC_PER_MSEC);
+               struct timespec end_time = ep_set_mstimeout(timeout);
+
                slack = select_estimate_accuracy(&end_time);
                to = &expires;
                *to = timespec_to_ktime(end_time);


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