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author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2012-01-27 11:14:02 -0500 |
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committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2012-01-27 11:14:02 -0500 |
commit | 6c02b7b1610f873888af20f291c07730889ff0f9 (patch) | |
tree | 1b33e6642cc81605b8d37c0bda0abff0ba64fa2d /arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h | |
parent | 7a7546b377bdaa25ac77f33d9433c59f259b9688 (diff) | |
parent | dcd6c92267155e70a94b3927bce681ce74b80d1f (diff) |
Merge commit 'v3.3-rc1' into stable/for-linus-fixes-3.3
* commit 'v3.3-rc1': (9775 commits)
Linux 3.3-rc1
x86, syscall: Need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC for 32 bits
qnx4: don't leak ->BitMap on late failure exits
qnx4: reduce the insane nesting in qnx4_checkroot()
qnx4: di_fname is an array, for crying out loud...
KEYS: Permit key_serial() to be called with a const key pointer
keys: fix user_defined key sparse messages
ima: fix cred sparse warning
uml: fix compile for x86-64
MPILIB: Add a missing ENOMEM check
tpm: fix (ACPI S3) suspend regression
nvme: fix merge error due to change of 'make_request_fn' fn type
xen: using EXPORT_SYMBOL requires including export.h
gpio: tps65910: Use correct offset for gpio initialization
acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec
intel_idle: Split up and provide per CPU initialization func
ACPI processor: Remove unneeded variable passed by acpi_processor_hotadd_init V2
tg3: Fix single-vector MSI-X code
openvswitch: Fix multipart datapath dumps.
ipv6: fix per device IP snmp counters
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h index fa7b9176b76c..431793e5d484 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h @@ -32,6 +32,22 @@ extern int no_timer_check; * (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) * * -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!" + * + * In: + * + * ns = cycles * cyc2ns_scale / SC + * + * Although we may still have enough bits to store the value of ns, + * in some cases, we may not have enough bits to store cycles * cyc2ns_scale, + * leading to an incorrect result. + * + * To avoid this, we can decompose 'cycles' into quotient and remainder + * of division by SC. Then, + * + * ns = (quot * SC + rem) * cyc2ns_scale / SC + * = quot * cyc2ns_scale + (rem * cyc2ns_scale) / SC + * + * - sqazi@google.com */ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cyc2ns); @@ -41,9 +57,14 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long long, cyc2ns_offset); static inline unsigned long long __cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc) { + unsigned long long quot; + unsigned long long rem; int cpu = smp_processor_id(); unsigned long long ns = per_cpu(cyc2ns_offset, cpu); - ns += cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR; + quot = (cyc >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR); + rem = cyc & ((1ULL << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR) - 1); + ns += quot * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) + + ((rem * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu)) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR); return ns; } |