Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 203c2ad40d71..beebe3a02d43 100644
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -110,6 +110,19 @@ static inline bool timespec_valid_strict(const struct timespec *ts)
 	return true;
 }
 
+static inline bool timeval_valid(const struct timeval *tv)
+{
+	/* Dates before 1970 are bogus */
+	if (tv->tv_sec < 0)
+		return false;
+
+	/* Can't have more microseconds then a second */
+	if (tv->tv_usec < 0 || tv->tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 extern struct timespec timespec_trunc(struct timespec t, unsigned gran);
 
 #define CURRENT_TIME		(current_kernel_time())