In one of my ATM drivers, I have the following non-portable and therefore
ugly solution (inspired by arch/i386/kernel/time.c:do_fast_gettimeoffset):
*
* zatm_dev->factor = (interval << TIMER_SHIFT)/
* (ticks-zatm_dev->last_clk);
*/
#define S(x) #x /* "stringification" ... */
#define SX(x) S(x)
asm("movl %2,%%ebx\n\t"
"subl %3,%%ebx\n\t"
"xorl %%edx,%%edx\n\t"
"shldl $" SX(TIMER_SHIFT) ",%1,%%edx\n\t"
"shl $" SX(TIMER_SHIFT) ",%1\n\t"
"divl %%ebx\n\t"
: "=eax" (zatm_dev->factor)
: "eax" (interval-diff),"g" (ticks),
"g" (zatm_dev->last_clk)
: "ebx","edx","cc");
#undef S
#undef SX
> It seems gcc requires libgcc to do that, but libgcc is not available.
Right, I didn't dare to link the kernel with libgcc either. I think it
would be a very good idea to have basic 64 bit arithmetic available in
the kernel too.
- Werner
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