In the overall kernel source there currently are
2544 msecs_to_jiffies
126 usecs_to_jiffies
and a few places that are using var * HZ / 1000 constructs
which are not always safe (no check of corner cases) and should
be switched to msecs_to_jiffies (roughly 25 left).
Allowing gcc to fold constants for these calls that in most
cases are passing in constants (roughly 95%) has some potential
to improve performance (and should save a few bytes).
size impact:
x86_64_defconfig:
without patches vmlinux 24628843
with patches vmlinux 24628797
ppc64_defconfig:
without patches 27412024
with patches 27412040 (no clue why it is bigger!)
multi_v7_defconfig:
without patches vmlinux.o 22901462
with patches vmlinux.o 22899843
As the changes to the top level Kbuild will impact every architecture
this is probably not enough testing - but should be suitable for a first
review.
Once this is clean a patch for usecs_to_jiffies will be provided as well
The patch set:
0001 moves timeconst.h from kernel/time/ to include/generated/ and makes
it available early enough so that the build can use the constants
for msecs_to_jiffies
0002 rename msecs_to_jiffies to __msecs_to_jiffies, the only modification
is that the < 0 is moved out.
modified version of msecs_to_jiffies that checks for constant via
call to __builtin_constant_p() and calls __msecs_to_jiffies if it
can't determine that the argument is constant.
0003 documentation update and reformatting to kernel-doc format
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