Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into for-linus

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index 29511943871a..2e2e469a7fec 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -370,13 +370,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mktime);
  *      0 <= tv_nsec < NSEC_PER_SEC
  * For negative values only the tv_sec field is negative !
  */
-void set_normalized_timespec(struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, long nsec)
+void set_normalized_timespec(struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, s64 nsec)
 {
         while (nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
+                /*
+                 * The following asm() prevents the compiler from
+                 * optimising this loop into a modulo operation. See
+                 * also __iter_div_u64_rem() in include/linux/time.h
+                 */
+                asm("" : "+rm"(nsec));
                 nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
                 ++sec;
         }
         while (nsec < 0) {
+                asm("" : "+rm"(nsec));
                 nsec += NSEC_PER_SEC;
                 --sec;
         }