clocksource: Add 'max_cycles' to 'struct clocksource'

In order to facilitate clocksource validation, add a
'max_cycles' field to the clocksource structure which
will hold the maximum cycle value that can safely be
multiplied without potentially causing an overflow.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
John Stultz
2015-03-11 21:16:31 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 362fde0410
commit fb82fe2fe8
3 changed files with 20 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ void __init sched_clock_register(u64 (*read)(void), int bits,
new_mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(bits);
/* calculate how many nanosecs until we risk wrapping */
wrap = clocks_calc_max_nsecs(new_mult, new_shift, 0, new_mask);
wrap = clocks_calc_max_nsecs(new_mult, new_shift, 0, new_mask, NULL);
new_wrap_kt = ns_to_ktime(wrap);
/* update epoch for new counter and update epoch_ns from old counter*/