From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:57:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5318C50D.2010505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394128601-26034-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
On 03/06/2014 12:56 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Even though nsec based cputime_t maps to u64, nsecs_to_cputime() must
> return a cputime_t value. We want to enforce this kind of cast in order
> to track down buggy manipulations of cputime_t such as direct access
> of its values under wrong assumptions on its backend type (nsecs,
> jiffies, etc...) by core code.
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 17:56 [PATCH 0/6] cputime: Fixes and cleanups on steal time accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 18:57 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-03-12 2:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 19:17 ` Rik van Riel
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 19:24 ` Rik van Riel
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 19:36 ` Rik van Riel
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] sched: Remove needless round trip nsecs <-> tick conversion of steal time Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 19:39 ` Rik van Riel
2014-03-06 17:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] arch: Remove stub cputime.h headers Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-06 19:40 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-12 2:09 [GIT PULL] timers updates for 3.15 Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-12 2:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast Frederic Weisbecker
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