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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] time: Fix truncation in jiffies_to_usecs()
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> c) If not this ... then what? Separate routine to convert large numbers
> of jiffies to usec/nsecs? Should we make the existing one barf when
> handed a number that overflows?

Having thought about this a bit more - I'm leaning towards leaving
jiffies_to_usecs() alone, but using it as a model for a from-scratch
implementation of:
u64 jiffies_to_nsecs(const unsigned long j)
{
}

This is what the uptime tracer actually needs - and there is only
one user of jiffies_to_nsecs() to worry about.

-Tony


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