[PATCH 3.16 183/366] time: Make sure jiffies_to_msecs() preserves non-zero time periods

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Nov 11 2018 - 15:13:48 EST


3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit abcbcb80cd09cd40f2089d912764e315459b71f7 upstream.

For the common cases where 1000 is a multiple of HZ, or HZ is a multiple of
1000, jiffies_to_msecs() never returns zero when passed a non-zero time
period.

However, if HZ > 1000 and not an integer multiple of 1000 (e.g. 1024 or
1200, as used on alpha and DECstation), jiffies_to_msecs() may return zero
for small non-zero time periods. This may break code that relies on
receiving back a non-zero value.

jiffies_to_usecs() does not need such a fix: one jiffy can only be less
than one Âs if HZ > 1000000, and such large values of HZ are already
rejected at build time, twice:

- include/linux/jiffies.h does #error if HZ >= 12288,
- kernel/time/time.c has BUILD_BUG_ON(HZ > USEC_PER_SEC).

Broken since forever.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622143357.7495-1-geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/timex.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
@@ -253,9 +254,10 @@ unsigned int jiffies_to_msecs(const unsi
return (j + (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC) - 1)/(HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC);
#else
# if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
- return (HZ_TO_MSEC_MUL32 * j) >> HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32;
+ return (HZ_TO_MSEC_MUL32 * j + (1ULL << HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32) - 1) >>
+ HZ_TO_MSEC_SHR32;
# else
- return (j * HZ_TO_MSEC_NUM) / HZ_TO_MSEC_DEN;
+ return DIV_ROUND_UP(j * HZ_TO_MSEC_NUM, HZ_TO_MSEC_DEN);
# endif
#endif
}