Re: [PATCH] timer: prevent overflow in apply_slack

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Jiri Bohac wrote:

> Prevent overflow in the computation of timer expiry time inside
> apply_slack().

What's the impact of this overflow?

We don't want changelogs which describe what they do, we want them to
describe WHY and WHAT kind of problem the patch fixes.
 
Thanks,

	tglx
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