linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND 01/36] jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 04:09:16 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        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>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND 01/36] jiffies: Reuse TICK_NSEC instead of NSEC_PER_JIFFY

NSEC_PER_JIFFY is an ad-hoc redefinition of TICK_NSEC. Let's rather
use a unique and well maintained 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/jiffies.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index a4a0e47..7906b3f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -27,19 +27,8 @@
 
 #include "timekeeping.h"
 
-/* The Jiffies based clocksource is the lowest common
- * denominator clock source which should function on
- * all systems. It has the same coarse resolution as
- * the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers
- * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer
- * interrupts and the inability for the timer
- * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the
- * requested HZ value. It is also not recommended
- * for "tick-less" systems.
- */
-#define NSEC_PER_JIFFY	((NSEC_PER_SEC+HZ/2)/HZ)
 
-/* Since jiffies uses a simple NSEC_PER_JIFFY multiplier
+/* Since jiffies uses a simple TICK_NSEC multiplier
  * conversion, the .shift value could be zero. However
  * this would make NTP adjustments impossible as they are
  * in units of 1/2^.shift. Thus we use JIFFIES_SHIFT to
@@ -47,8 +36,8 @@
  * amount, and give ntp adjustments in units of 1/2^8
  *
  * The value 8 is somewhat carefully chosen, as anything
- * larger can result in overflows. NSEC_PER_JIFFY grows as
- * HZ shrinks, so values greater than 8 overflow 32bits when
+ * larger can result in overflows. TICK_NSEC grows as HZ
+ * shrinks, so values greater than 8 overflow 32bits when
  * HZ=100.
  */
 #if HZ < 34
@@ -64,12 +53,23 @@ static u64 jiffies_read(struct clocksource *cs)
 	return (u64) jiffies;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The Jiffies based clocksource is the lowest common
+ * denominator clock source which should function on
+ * all systems. It has the same coarse resolution as
+ * the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers
+ * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer
+ * interrupts and the inability for the timer
+ * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the
+ * requested HZ value. It is also not recommended
+ * for "tick-less" systems.
+ */
 static struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
 	.name		= "jiffies",
 	.rating		= 1, /* lowest valid rating*/
 	.read		= jiffies_read,
 	.mask		= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
-	.mult		= NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
+	.mult		= TICK_NSEC << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
 	.shift		= JIFFIES_SHIFT,
 	.max_cycles	= 10,
 };
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int register_refined_jiffies(long cycles_per_second)
 	shift_hz += cycles_per_tick/2;
 	do_div(shift_hz, cycles_per_tick);
 	/* Calculate nsec_per_tick using shift_hz */
-	nsec_per_tick = (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC << 8;
+	nsec_per_tick = (u64)TICK_NSEC << 8;
 	nsec_per_tick += (u32)shift_hz/2;
 	do_div(nsec_per_tick, (u32)shift_hz);
 
-- 
2.7.4