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* [TRIVIAL patch] 2.6.2-rc2 Remove compile warnings from timer.o
@ 2004-02-11  0:39 Darren Williams
  2004-02-11  0:55 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Darren Williams @ 2004-02-11  0:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kern; +Cc: akpm


To allow the ia64 simulator to run correctly on slower machines
the value of HZ has been defined as 32, this has introduced a compiler
warning (not that much of issue):
kernel/timer.c: In function `second_overflow':
kernel/timer.c:589: warning: right shift count is negative
kernel/timer.c:592: warning: right shift count is negative

I asked if the value of HZ could be increased for the simulator in 
include/asm-ia64/param.h, 
which was rejected for reasons below.

Is the patch below acceptable.

Darren


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Mosberger wrote:


> 
>   Darren> -#  define HZ	  32
>   Darren> +#  define HZ	  96
> 
> Doesn't strike me as the correct fix: looking at timex.h, clearly HZ
> values as low as 12Hz are supposed to be supported.  Perhaps a better
> fix would be to change timer.c to verify that
> SHIFT_SCALE<=SHIFT_USEC+SHIFT_HZ before attempting to do the shifting
> (via a CPP #if, of course).
> 
> Also, I'm a bit reluctant to increase the HZ value for the simulator,
> because too large a value will cause the simulated kernel to fail to
> make forward progress on slow host machines.

I thouht that this might be the case, though the fisrt attempt modified
the smallest amount of source.

> 	--david

Hope the attached is suitable.

Darren

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Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Gelato@UNSW <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au>
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--- linux-2.6.2-rc2.orig/kernel/timer.c	2004-02-11 10:45:02.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6.2-rc2/kernel/timer.c	2004-02-11 10:01:26.000000000 +1100
@@ -584,12 +584,22 @@ static void second_overflow(void)
 			 STA_PPSWANDER | STA_PPSERROR);
     }
     ltemp = time_freq + pps_freq;
+    
+#if (SHIFT_SCALE <= (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ))
     if (ltemp < 0)
 	time_adj -= -ltemp >>
 	    (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
     else
 	time_adj += ltemp >>
 	    (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
+	    
+#else	/* (SHIFT_SCALE > (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) */
+    if (ltemp < 0)
+	time_adj -= -ltemp >> SHIFT_SCALE;
+    else
+	time_adj += ltemp >> SHIFT_SCALE;
+	    
+#endif /* (SHIFT_SCALE > (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) */
 
 #if HZ == 100
     /* Compensate for (HZ==100) != (1 << SHIFT_HZ).


--------------------------------------------------
Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Gelato@UNSW <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au>
--------------------------------------------------

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* Re: [TRIVIAL patch] 2.6.2-rc2 Remove compile warnings from timer.o
  2004-02-11  0:39 [TRIVIAL patch] 2.6.2-rc2 Remove compile warnings from timer.o Darren Williams
@ 2004-02-11  0:55 ` Andrew Morton
  2004-02-11  1:15   ` Darren Williams
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2004-02-11  0:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Darren Williams; +Cc: linux-kernel, akpm

Darren Williams <dsw@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 
> To allow the ia64 simulator to run correctly on slower machines
> the value of HZ has been defined as 32, this has introduced a compiler
> warning (not that much of issue):
> kernel/timer.c: In function `second_overflow':
> kernel/timer.c:589: warning: right shift count is negative
> kernel/timer.c:592: warning: right shift count is negative
> 
> I asked if the value of HZ could be increased for the simulator in 
> include/asm-ia64/param.h, 
> which was rejected for reasons below.

Well we really should be able to support values lower than 32 anyway - just
from a quality-of-code point of view.

I do recall once spying a piece of code which would cause a div-by-zero if
HZ was set to less than 50.  These things happen.

>      ltemp = time_freq + pps_freq;
> +    
> +#if (SHIFT_SCALE <= (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ))
>      if (ltemp < 0)
>  	time_adj -= -ltemp >>
>  	    (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
>      else
>  	time_adj += ltemp >>
>  	    (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
> +	    
> +#else	/* (SHIFT_SCALE > (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) */
> +    if (ltemp < 0)
> +	time_adj -= -ltemp >> SHIFT_SCALE;
> +    else
> +	time_adj += ltemp >> SHIFT_SCALE;
> +	    
> +#endif /* (SHIFT_SCALE > (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) */

You should lose the ifdefs.  Just do:

	if (SHIFT_SCALE <= (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) {
		if (ltemp < 0)
			time_adj -= -ltemp >>
				(SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
		else
			time_adj += ltemp >>
				(SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
	}
	...

because

a) It is not revolting and

b) The compiler checks the unused code for you, then throws it away.




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* Re: [TRIVIAL patch] 2.6.2-rc2 Remove compile warnings from timer.o
  2004-02-11  0:55 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2004-02-11  1:15   ` Darren Williams
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Darren Williams @ 2004-02-11  1:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kern


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> You should lose the ifdefs.  Just do:
> 
> 	if (SHIFT_SCALE <= (SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ)) {
> 		if (ltemp < 0)
> 			time_adj -= -ltemp >>
> 				(SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
> 		else
> 			time_adj += ltemp >>
> 				(SHIFT_USEC + SHIFT_HZ - SHIFT_SCALE);
> 	}
> 	...
> 
> because
> 
> a) It is not revolting and
> 
> b) The compiler checks the unused code for you, then throws it away.
> 
However this does not remove the compile warnings.

Darren

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Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Gelato@UNSW <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au>
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