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author | Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com> | 2009-08-18 17:45:11 (GMT) |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2009-11-13 19:46:24 (GMT) |
commit | 97813f2fe77804a4464564c75ba8d8826377feea (patch) | |
tree | 5dc7154c5687edaee5712408c8baf605463ff093 /kernel/time/clockevents.c | |
parent | 27185016b806d5a1181ff501cae120582b2b27dd (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-97813f2fe77804a4464564c75ba8d8826377feea.tar.xz |
nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
In the dynamic tick code, "max_delta_ns" (member of the
"clock_event_device" structure) represents the maximum sleep time
that can occur between timer events in nanoseconds.
The variable, "max_delta_ns", is defined as an unsigned long
which is a 32-bit integer for 32-bit machines and a 64-bit
integer for 64-bit machines (if -m64 option is used for gcc).
The value of max_delta_ns is set by calling the function
"clockevent_delta2ns()" which returns a maximum value of LONG_MAX.
For a 32-bit machine LONG_MAX is equal to 0x7fffffff and in
nanoseconds this equates to ~2.15 seconds. Hence, the maximum
sleep time for a 32-bit machine is ~2.15 seconds, where as for
a 64-bit machine it will be many years.
This patch changes the type of max_delta_ns to be "u64" instead of
"unsigned long" so that this variable is a 64-bit type for both 32-bit
and 64-bit machines. It also changes the maximum value returned by
clockevent_delta2ns() to KTIME_MAX. Hence this allows a 32-bit
machine to sleep for longer than ~2.15 seconds. Please note that this
patch also changes "min_delta_ns" to be "u64" too and although this is
unnecessary, it makes the patch simpler as it avoids to fixup all
callers of clockevent_delta2ns().
[ tglx: changed "unsigned long long" to u64 as we use this data type
through out the time code ]
Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-3-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/clockevents.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/clockevents.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c index 620b58a..05e8aee 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c @@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(clockevents_lock); * * Math helper, returns latch value converted to nanoseconds (bound checked) */ -unsigned long clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, - struct clock_event_device *evt) +u64 clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, struct clock_event_device *evt) { - u64 clc = ((u64) latch << evt->shift); + u64 clc = (u64) latch << evt->shift; if (unlikely(!evt->mult)) { evt->mult = 1; @@ -50,10 +49,10 @@ unsigned long clockevent_delta2ns(unsigned long latch, do_div(clc, evt->mult); if (clc < 1000) clc = 1000; - if (clc > LONG_MAX) - clc = LONG_MAX; + if (clc > KTIME_MAX) + clc = KTIME_MAX; - return (unsigned long) clc; + return clc; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevent_delta2ns); |