Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:35:44 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer |
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:32:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer
the exact timing of the corruption check isn't too important (it's once a minute timer), use round_jiffies() to align it and avoid extra wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index d5bd679..a9998cb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ void check_for_bios_corruption(void) static void periodic_check_for_corruption(unsigned long data) { check_for_bios_corruption(); - mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, jiffies + corruption_check_period*HZ); + mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + corruption_check_period*HZ)); } void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void) -- 1.5.5.1
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