Geert Uytterhoeven 88c4318d36 time: Make sure jiffies_to_msecs() preserves non-zero time periods
commit abcbcb80cd upstream.

For the common cases where 1000 is a multiple of HZ, or HZ is a multiple of
1000, jiffies_to_msecs() never returns zero when passed a non-zero time
period.

However, if HZ > 1000 and not an integer multiple of 1000 (e.g. 1024 or
1200, as used on alpha and DECstation), jiffies_to_msecs() may return zero
for small non-zero time periods.  This may break code that relies on
receiving back a non-zero value.

jiffies_to_usecs() does not need such a fix: one jiffy can only be less
than one µs if HZ > 1000000, and such large values of HZ are already
rejected at build time, twice:

  - include/linux/jiffies.h does #error if HZ >= 12288,
  - kernel/time/time.c has BUILD_BUG_ON(HZ > USEC_PER_SEC).

Broken since forever.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622143357.7495-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-07-03 11:24:56 +02:00
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2018-06-26 08:06:33 +08:00

Linux kernel
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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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