Re: [RFC PATCH] time: Fix truncation in jiffies_to_usecs()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:34:51 -0700
Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

Sounds good to me.

-- Steve
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