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sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock
authorSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:12:06 +0000 (14:12 -0800)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:45:01 +0000 (16:45 -0500)
commit1db597885d25b0c0ef0636b15465eecca7158dfc
treee6d836d6d6d5ccb5c84dbca1c7728f9b01a2c581
parentcb49b3fde667fea4a8121f9d376085564ba64ba0
sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock

commit 4cecf6d401a01d054afc1e5f605bcbfe553cb9b9 upstream.

(Added the missing signed-off-by line)

In hundreds of days, the __cycles_2_ns calculation in sched_clock
has an overflow.  cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing
the final value to become zero.  We can solve this without losing
any precision.

We can decompose TSC into quotient and remainder of division by the
scale factor, and then use this to convert TSC into nanoseconds.

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111115221121.7262.88871.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h