On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:23:33 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This will be needed for the conversion of kernel stat to nsecs.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/cputime.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cputime.h b/include/linux/cputime.h
> index f2eb2ee..a225ab9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cputime.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cputime.h
> @@ -13,4 +13,14 @@
>       usecs_to_cputime((__nsecs) / NSEC_PER_USEC)
>  #endif
> 
> +#ifndef nsecs_to_cputime
> +# define nsecs_to_cputime(__nsecs)   \
> +     usecs_to_cputime((__nsecs) / NSEC_PER_USEC)
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef nsecs_to_cputime64
> +# define nsecs_to_cputime64(__nsecs) \
> +     ((__force cputime64_t) nsecs_to_cputime(__nsecs))
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* __LINUX_CPUTIME_H */

For any architecture with a cputime_t better than a micro-second
the conversion to micro seconds degrades the precision a lot.

I would prefer to see the compile fail for e.g. s390 instead
of silently introducing *broken* cputime values.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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