sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock
commite52d3fb7c83d6cb569f343a3db9b45decc801f59
authorSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:12:06 +0000 (15 14:12 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:21:48 +0000 (9 09:21 -0800)
tree5b29e84de4689596edbf2dc222f3a70926cf8f91
parent4708ad6374f07cdfb379c5d4100125e2cfd339d9
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h