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* [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer
@ 2008-09-21  3:35 Arjan van de Ven
  2008-09-22  8:29 ` Ingo Molnar
  2008-09-22 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] corruption check: move the corruption checks into their own file Arjan van de Ven
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2008-09-21  3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo; +Cc: linux-kernel, Hugh Dickins, Jeremy Fitzhardinge


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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2008-09-21  3:35 [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-22  8:29 ` 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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