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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-02-08 04:21:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:22:39 -0800
commitbdc807871d58285737d50dc6163d0feb72cb0dc2 (patch)
tree1a6d35f3537ed1a7460811549efd045ae97a0e6e /include/asm-v850
parent7ef3d2fd17c377ef64a2aa19677d17576606c3b4 (diff)
avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently do a multiply followed by a divide. The intervening result, however, is subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000). This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for example. This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on 32-bit platforms. When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on 64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g. on 64-bit s390), but since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000). The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half of the valid output range. This could be avoided at the expense of having to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result. Since the intent is to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff. At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute the necessary constants. We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel compiles. This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0. In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table. Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the Makefile. Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the sh tree. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>, Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>, Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>, Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>, Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>, Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-v850')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/anna.h6
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/as85ep1.h6
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/fpga85e2c.h6
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/param.h3
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/rte_cb.h6
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/sim.h5
-rw-r--r--include/asm-v850/sim85e2.h6
7 files changed, 1 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/anna.h b/include/asm-v850/anna.h
index 3be77d5ecfc..cd5eaee103b 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/anna.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/anna.h
@@ -134,10 +134,4 @@ extern void anna_uart_pre_configure (unsigned chan,
#define V850E_TIMER_D_TMCD_CS_MIN 1 /* min 2^1 divider */
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 100
-#endif
-
-
#endif /* __V850_ANNA_H__ */
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/as85ep1.h b/include/asm-v850/as85ep1.h
index 659bc910ffd..5a5ca9073d0 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/as85ep1.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/as85ep1.h
@@ -149,10 +149,4 @@ extern void as85ep1_uart_pre_configure (unsigned chan,
#define V850E_TIMER_D_TMCD_CS_MIN 2 /* min 2^2 divider */
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 100
-#endif
-
-
#endif /* __V850_AS85EP1_H__ */
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/fpga85e2c.h b/include/asm-v850/fpga85e2c.h
index d32f04504b1..23aae666c71 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/fpga85e2c.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/fpga85e2c.h
@@ -79,10 +79,4 @@ extern char _r0_ram;
#endif
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 122 /* actually, 8.192ms ticks =~ 122.07 */
-#endif
-
-
#endif /* __V850_FPGA85E2C_H__ */
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/param.h b/include/asm-v850/param.h
index 3c65bd57378..28183269029 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/param.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/param.h
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 64 /* max length of hostname */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
-#include <asm/machdep.h> /* For HZ */
-
+# define HZ CONFIG_HZ
# define USER_HZ 100
# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC USER_HZ
#endif
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/rte_cb.h b/include/asm-v850/rte_cb.h
index e85d261b79b..db9879f00aa 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/rte_cb.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/rte_cb.h
@@ -69,12 +69,6 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_RTE_MB_A_PCI */
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 100
-#endif
-
-
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
extern void rte_cb_early_init (void);
extern void rte_cb_init_irqs (void);
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/sim.h b/include/asm-v850/sim.h
index 10236abbe9b..026932d476c 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/sim.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/sim.h
@@ -40,11 +40,6 @@
#define R0_RAM_ADDR 0xFFFFF000
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 24 /* Minimum supported frequency. */
-#endif
-
/* For <asm/irq.h> */
#define NUM_CPU_IRQS 6
diff --git a/include/asm-v850/sim85e2.h b/include/asm-v850/sim85e2.h
index 17dd4fa318e..8b4d6974066 100644
--- a/include/asm-v850/sim85e2.h
+++ b/include/asm-v850/sim85e2.h
@@ -66,10 +66,4 @@
#define R0_RAM_ADDR 0xFFFFE000
-/* For <asm/param.h> */
-#ifndef HZ
-#define HZ 24 /* Minimum supported frequency. */
-#endif
-
-
#endif /* __V850_SIM85E2_H__ */