[PATCH] timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies*()

[Bart Van Assche]

Make sure that the round_jiffies*() functions return a time that is
in the future when the jiffies counter is about to wrap.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/timer.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 15ffdb3..aa8b964 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -149,9 +149,7 @@ static unsigned long round_jiffies_common(unsigned long j, int cpu,
 	/* now that we have rounded, subtract the extra skew again */
 	j -= cpu * 3;
-	if (j <= jiffies) /* rounding ate our timeout entirely; */
-		return original;
-	return j;
+	return time_is_after_jiffies(j) ? j : original;
 }
  /**
-- 
1.7.10.4

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