Re: [PATCH] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> On Monday 12 December 2011, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static cputime64_t get_iowait_time(int cpu)
>>                 /* !NO_HZ so we can rely on cpustat.iowait */
>>                 iowait = kstat_cpu(cpu).cpustat.iowait;
>>         else
>> -               iowait = nsecs_to_jiffies64(1000 * iowait_time);
>> +               iowait = jiffies64_to_cputime64(nsecs_to_jiffies64(1000 * iowait_time));
>>  
>>         return iowait;
>
> Hmm, shouldn't this be using nsecs_to_cputime64()? For some reason however, that function
> is (incorrectly?) defined as 
>
> include/asm-generic/cputime.h:#define nsecs_to_cputime64(__ct)  nsecs_to_jiffies64(__ct)
>
> and only used in one place, in
>
> kernel/sched.c: if (cputime64_gt(nsecs_to_cputime64(latest_ns), cpustat->irq))
> kernel/sched.c: if (cputime64_gt(nsecs_to_cputime64(latest_ns), cpustat->softirq))
>
> I'm not sure what the correct solution is, but I would assume that ia64 and powerpc
> should fix their definitions of nsecs_to_cputime64() anyway.

There is no definition of nsecs_to_cputime64 on ia64/powerpc64 with
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING yet, probably because
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING is x86-only.

Andreas.

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