linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][patch 10/12] move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:15:06 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 10/12] move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct 
	timekeeper

2009/7/29 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>:

> Index: linux-2.6/arch/arm/plat-omap/common.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/arm/plat-omap/common.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/arm/plat-omap/common.c
> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ unsigned long long sched_clock(void)
>        unsigned long long ret;
>
>        ret = (unsigned long long)clocksource_32k.read(&clocksource_32k);
> -       ret = (ret * clocksource_32k.mult_orig) >> clocksource_32k.shift;
> +       ret = (ret * clocksource_32k.mult) >> clocksource_32k.shift;

Doesn't the overall effect of your patch mean that the above can simply be
replaced by

ret = cyc2ns(&clocksource_32k, ret);

Or clocksource_cyc2ns() if that was renamed (I don't have the entire
picture here...)

>        return ret;
>  }

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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