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authorJon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>2009-08-18 12:45:11 -0500
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-11-13 20:46:24 +0100
commit97813f2fe77804a4464564c75ba8d8826377feea (patch)
tree5dc7154c5687edaee5712408c8baf605463ff093 /kernel/time/clockevents.c
parent27185016b806d5a1181ff501cae120582b2b27dd (diff)
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.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
index 620b58abdc3..05e8aeedcdf 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);