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Message-ID: <20160223081757.59f3b698@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:17:57 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing: Add __print_ns_to_secs() and
__print_ns_without_secs() helpers
On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:49:15 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:26:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> >
> > To have nanosecond output displayed in a more human readable format, its
> > nicer to convert it to a seconds format (XXX.YYYYYYYYY). The problem is that
> > to do so, the numbers must be divided by NSEC_PER_SEC, and moded too. But as
> > these numbers are 64 bit, this can not be done simply with '/' and '%'
> > operators, but must use do_div() instead.
>
> Would not div_[us]64_rem() make more sense? It would typically result in
> just the one division, instead of two.
The problem is, how do you do that in a printf() statement?
We have "%llu.%09ul" which is two arguments in the printf(). And the
values we are processing can't be modified. Which is why the macro uses
({ }) and creates a temp variable.
-- Steve
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