From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a legacy constant that defines the timer device's granularity. On hardware with particularly coarse granularity, this constant is used to reduce accumulated time error when using jiffies as a clocksource, by calculating the hardware's actual tick length rather then just assuming it is 1sec/HZ.
However, for the most part this is unnecessary, as most modern systems don't use jiffies for their clocksource, and their tick device is sufficiently fine grained to avoid major error. Thus, this patch allows an architecture to not define CLOCK_TICK_RATE, in which case ACTHZ defaults to (HZ << 8). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Cochran <[email protected]> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> [jstultz: commit log tweaks] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]> --- include/linux/jiffies.h | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h index 265e2c3..a2134be 100644 --- a/include/linux/jiffies.h +++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h @@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ # error Invalid value of HZ. #endif -/* LATCH is used in the interval timer and ftape setup. */ -#define LATCH ((CLOCK_TICK_RATE + HZ/2) / HZ) /* For divider */ - /* Suppose we want to divide two numbers NOM and DEN: NOM/DEN, then we can * improve accuracy by shifting LSH bits, hence calculating: * (NOM << LSH) / DEN @@ -54,8 +51,15 @@ #define SH_DIV(NOM,DEN,LSH) ( (((NOM) / (DEN)) << (LSH)) \ + ((((NOM) % (DEN)) << (LSH)) + (DEN) / 2) / (DEN)) +#ifdef CLOCK_TICK_RATE +/* LATCH is used in the interval timer and ftape setup. */ +#define LATCH ((CLOCK_TICK_RATE + HZ/2) / HZ) /* For divider */ + /* HZ is the requested value. ACTHZ is actual HZ ("<< 8" is for accuracy) */ #define ACTHZ (SH_DIV (CLOCK_TICK_RATE, LATCH, 8)) +#else +#define ACTHZ (HZ << 8) +#endif /* TICK_NSEC is the time between ticks in nsec assuming real ACTHZ */ #define TICK_NSEC (SH_DIV (1000000UL * 1000, ACTHZ, 8)) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
