Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Don't overflow cevt-r4k.c calculations at high clock rates.

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>]

Easy for me to say, of course, but once this patch is accepted, the same 
thing needs to be done to smtc_clockevent_init() in cevt-smtc.c.

          Regards,

          Kevin K.


David Daney wrote:
> The 'mult' element of struct clock_event_device must never be wider
> than 32-bits.  If it were, it would get truncated when used by
> clockevent_delta2ns() when this calls do_div().
>
> We meet the requirement by ensuring that the relationship:
>
>  (mips_hpt_frequency >> (32 - shift)) < NSEC_PER_SEC
>
> Always holds.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> index 0b2450c..4495158 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> @@ -163,10 +163,11 @@ int c0_compare_int_usable(void)
>  
>  int __cpuinit r4k_clockevent_init(void)
>  {
> -	uint64_t mips_freq = mips_hpt_frequency;
> +	uint64_t scaled_freq = mips_hpt_frequency;
>  	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  	struct clock_event_device *cd;
>  	unsigned int irq;
> +	int shift;
>  
>  	if (!cpu_has_counter || !mips_hpt_frequency)
>  		return -ENXIO;
> @@ -189,8 +190,17 @@ int __cpuinit r4k_clockevent_init(void)
>  	cd->features		= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT;
>  
>  	/* Calculate the min / max delta */
> -	cd->mult	= div_sc((unsigned long) mips_freq, NSEC_PER_SEC, 32);
> -	cd->shift		= 32;
> +	shift = 32;
> +	while (scaled_freq >= NSEC_PER_SEC && shift) {
> +		scaled_freq = scaled_freq >> 1;
> +		shift--;
> +	}
> +	BUG_ON(shift == 0);
> +
> +	cd->mult		= div_sc((unsigned long) mips_hpt_frequency,
> +					 NSEC_PER_SEC, shift);
> +	cd->shift		= shift;
> +
>  	cd->max_delta_ns	= clockevent_delta2ns(0x7fffffff, cd);
>  	cd->min_delta_ns	= clockevent_delta2ns(0x300, cd);
>  
>