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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-12-20 14:43:53 +0000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-12-20 14:43:53 +0000
commit1fbe6f625f69e48c4001051dc1431afc704acfaa (patch)
tree826b741201a2e09a627ed350c6ff36935f5cff79 /arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h
parent0cecdd818cd79d092e36e70dfe3a71f2878d6b96 (diff)
parent384703b8e6cd4c8ef08512e596024e028c91c339 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.2-rc6' of /home/airlied/devel/kernel/linux-2.6 into drm-core-next
Merge in the upstream tree to bring in the mainline fixes. Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h
index fa7b9176b76..431793e5d48 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;
}