[SCSI] Merge up to linux-2.6 head

Conflicts:

	drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c

Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8
conversion in the copyright.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 5ec5490f8d85..1a69705c2fb9 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static inline void __run_timers(tvec_base_t *base)
 static unsigned long __next_timer_interrupt(tvec_base_t *base)
 {
         unsigned long timer_jiffies = base->timer_jiffies;
-        unsigned long expires = timer_jiffies + (LONG_MAX >> 1);
+        unsigned long expires = timer_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;
         int index, slot, array, found = 0;
         struct timer_list *nte;
         tvec_t *varray[4];
@@ -752,6 +752,14 @@ static unsigned long cmp_next_hrtimer_event(unsigned long now,
 
         tsdelta = ktime_to_timespec(hr_delta);
         delta = timespec_to_jiffies(&tsdelta);
+
+        /*
+         * Limit the delta to the max value, which is checked in
+         * tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick():
+         */
+        if (delta > NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA)
+                delta = NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA;
+
         /*
          * Take rounding errors in to account and make sure, that it
          * expires in the next tick. Otherwise we go into an endless