Re: Problem with commit deda2e81961e96be4f2c09328baca4710a2fd1a0

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With the above commit, building an i386 version of the kernel results in the
> following from the build:
>
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `logarithmic_accumulation':
> /home/finger/linux-realtek/kernel/time/timekeeping.c:715: undefined reference to
> `__umoddi3'
> /home/finger/linux-realtek/kernel/time/timekeeping.c:715: undefined reference to
> `__udivdi3'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> Reverting the patch allows the system to build correctly.

Damn. It's your compiler turning a while-loop into a divide. Which
likely isn't even an optimization, but whatever.

John: I think that while-loop needs to be something like

   if (raw_nsecs >= NSEC_PER_SEC) {
      u64 raw_secs = raw_nsecs;
      raw_nsecs = do_div(raw_secs, NSEC_PER_SEC);
      raw_time.tv_sec += taw_secs;
  }
  raw_time.tc_nsec = raw_nsecs;

which is sad and overly complicated, but the simple thing seems to get
messed up by the compiler.

Untested. Maybe I got the complex do_div() semantics wrong. Somebody
needs to check.

                     Linus
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