linux-kernel - [PATCH 18/37] posix-timers: Use TICK_NSEC instead of a dynamically ad-hoc calculated version

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Message-Id: <1485109213-8561-19-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:19:54 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 18/37] posix-timers: Use TICK_NSEC instead of a dynamically ad-hoc calculated version

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index d53ff71..8349e02 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -890,8 +890,6 @@ static inline void stop_process_timers(struct signal_struct *sig)
 	tick_dep_clear_signal(sig, TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER);
 }
 
-static u32 onecputick;
-
 static void check_cpu_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpu_itimer *it,
 			     unsigned long long *expires,
 			     unsigned long long cur_time, int signo)
@@ -903,9 +901,9 @@ static void check_cpu_itimer(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpu_itimer *it,
 		if (it->incr) {
 			it->expires += it->incr;
 			it->error += it->incr_error;
-			if (it->error >= onecputick) {
+			if (it->error >= TICK_NSEC) {
 				it->expires -= cputime_one_jiffy;
-				it->error -= onecputick;
+				it->error -= TICK_NSEC;
 			}
 		} else {
 			it->expires = 0;
@@ -1476,15 +1474,10 @@ static __init int init_posix_cpu_timers(void)
 		.clock_get	= thread_cpu_clock_get,
 		.timer_create	= thread_cpu_timer_create,
 	};
-	struct timespec ts;
 
 	posix_timers_register_clock(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &process);
 	posix_timers_register_clock(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, &thread);
 
-	cputime_to_timespec(cputime_one_jiffy, &ts);
-	onecputick = ts.tv_nsec;
-	WARN_ON(ts.tv_sec != 0);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 __initcall(init_posix_cpu_timers);
-- 
2.7.4