From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:35:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080920203544.53a5148e@infradead.org> (raw)
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:32:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer
the exact timing of the corruption check isn't too important (it's once a
minute timer), use round_jiffies() to align it and avoid extra wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index d5bd679..a9998cb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ void check_for_bios_corruption(void)
static void periodic_check_for_corruption(unsigned long data)
{
check_for_bios_corruption();
- mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, jiffies + corruption_check_period*HZ);
+ mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + corruption_check_period*HZ));
}
void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void)
--
1.5.5.1
--
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next reply other threads:[~2008-09-21 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-21 3:35 Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-09-22 8:29 ` [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer Ingo Molnar
2008-09-22 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] corruption check: move the corruption checks into their own file Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-22 21:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] corruption check: run the corruption checks from a work queue Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-22 23:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-22 23:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-09-22 23:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-23 11:33 ` Ingo Molnar
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