Re: [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 04:30:19 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:32:43 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: use round_jiffies() for the corruption check timer
>
> the exact timing of the corruption check isn't too important (it's once a
> minute timer), use round_jiffies() to align it and avoid extra wakeups.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/x86/memory-corruption-check, thanks Arjan!

Ingo
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