[PATCH resend4 2/3] itimers: fix periodic tics precision

Stanislaw Gruszka sgruszka at redhat.com
Mon May 25 22:51:32 EST 2009


On Mon, 25 May 2009 14:32:14 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 May 2009, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > @@ -904,6 +905,7 @@ void __init time_init(void)
> >  	tb_ticks_per_usec = ppc_tb_freq / 1000000;
> >  	tb_to_us = mulhwu_scale_factor(ppc_tb_freq, 1000000);
> >  	calc_cputime_factors();
> > +	cputime_one = jiffies_to_cputime(1);
> 
>   1) The variable name is misleading.

What about cputime_one_jiffy ?

>   2) The patch breaks all powerpc platforms which have
>   CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=n and ia64 with
>   CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y

Stupid me, in asm-generic/cputime.h should be 
#define cputime_one jiffies_to_cputime(1)

Thanks
Stanislaw



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