Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +static inline u32 clocksource_hz2shift(u32 bits, u32 hz)
> > +{
> > +	u64 temp;
> > +
> > +	for (; bits > 0; bits--) {
> > +		temp = (u64) NSEC_PER_SEC << bits;
> > +		do_div(temp, hz);
> > +		if ((temp >> 32) == 0)
> > +			break;
> > +	}
> > +	return bits;
> > +}
> 
> If we expect this to have more than one callsite then it would be best to
> uninline it.
> 
> Unless we always expect it to be called from __init code, in which case
> it's best to inline it ;)

I expect it would always get called from __init flagged functions. The
clocksource can't get registed/used with out the shift and mult values. 

If we did uninline this one, we would have to do the other helpers too.
I imagine the use case is the same for all of them ..

Daniel