Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:59:19 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:03:34 +0100
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, it seems that this bugfix (for 3.2) stalled. I guess that it is
> > primarily because it is multiarch fix.
> > I am sorry to bother you Andrew but could we push this through you,
> > please?
> > 
> > The full patch for reference:
> > ---
> > >From 1fca39b21f3b344c90c30d98db6dcdcdc6815797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:07:53 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t
> > 
> > get_{idle,iowait}_time are supposed to return cputime64_t values, not
> > jiffies.  Add usecs_to_cputime64 for this.
> 
> This makes a huge mess when mixed with Martin's "cputime: add sparse
> checking and cleanup" in linux-next.  I think I got it fixed up but it
> needs careful checking - I don't _think_ I needed to add more __force
> thingies.  The version against today's linux-next is below.

As long as cputime_t and cputime64_t have the same base type my version of
sparse does not warn if you mix the two types.
 
> (I did party tricks with this so I could carry the against-mainline and
> against-next versions in the same tree).
> 
> 
> Also, in include/asm-generic/cputime.h we have:
> 
> #define usecs_to_cputime64(__msecs)	nsecs_to_jiffies64((__msecs) * 1000)
> 
> But it would be neater to have used nsecs_to_cputime64(), surely.

It would be cleaner to do an explicit cast to cputime64_t for all of
the usecs_to_cputime64() definitions. 

-- 
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   Martin.

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