Re: [PATCH 2/2] rust: time: Implement basic arithmetic operations for Delta

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2025-07-27 at 07:31 +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> The CONFIG_64BIT restriction seems annoying. Could we not support 32-bit
> from the get-go? Where is this going to be used?
> 
> After all, we have stuff like this:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724165441.2105632-1-ojeda@kernel.org

I'm not really sure how the example is relevant here since we're dealing with
a different problem. The issue is that division and remainders for u64s are
not implemented natively on many 32 bit architectures. Also for where it's
going to be used: currently I'm using it in rvkms for calculating the time of
the next vblank when we enable/disable our vblank event timer. We basically
use the duration of a single frame and divide the time elapsed since our
emulated display was turned on, then use the remainder to figure out how many
nanoseconds have passed since the beginning of the current scanout frame -
which we then can just use to figure out the time of the next vblank event.

This being said, the kernel does have a math library that we can call into
that emulates operations like this on 32 bit - which I'd be willing to convert
these implementations over to using. I just put the CONFIG_64BIT there because
if we do use the kernel math library, I just want to make sure I don't end up
being the oen who has to figure out how to hook up the kernel math library for
64 bit division outside of simple time value manipulation. I've got enough
dependencies on my plate to get upstream as it is :P

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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