From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>

do_gettimeofday() is using tick_usec which is defined in terms of USER_HZ
not HZ.



 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/time.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/time.c~do_gettimeofday-tick_usec-fix arch/i386/kernel/time.c
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/time.c~do_gettimeofday-tick_usec-fix	Tue Nov 25 11:19:55 2003
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	Tue Nov 25 11:19:55 2003
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ void do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv)
 {
 	unsigned long seq;
 	unsigned long usec, sec;
-	unsigned long max_ntp_tick = tick_usec - tickadj;
+	unsigned long max_ntp_tick;
 
 	do {
 		unsigned long lost;
@@ -111,13 +111,14 @@ void do_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv)
 		 * Better to lose some accuracy than have time go backwards..
 		 */
 		if (unlikely(time_adjust < 0)) {
+			max_ntp_tick = (USEC_PER_SEC / HZ) - tickadj;
 			usec = min(usec, max_ntp_tick);
 
 			if (lost)
 				usec += lost * max_ntp_tick;
 		}
 		else if (unlikely(lost))
-			usec += lost * tick_usec;
+			usec += lost * (USEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
 
 		sec = xtime.tv_sec;
 		usec += (xtime.tv_nsec / 1000);

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