Re: [resend PATCH for 3.2] procfs: do not confuse jiffies withcputime64_t

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Dec 21 2011 - 18:59:26 EST


On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:55:07 +0100
Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Also, in include/asm-generic/cputime.h we have:
> >
> > #define usecs_to_cputime64(__msecs) nsecs_to_jiffies64((__msecs) * 1000)
> >
> > But it would be neater to have used nsecs_to_cputime64(), surely.
>
> The procfs interface wants to convert usecs to cputime64, but generic
> cputime does not have usecs_to_jiffies64. Once someone writes the
> latter it can be used here.
>

That doesn't address my suggestion.

I'm saying that this:

#define usecs_to_cputime64(__msecs) nsecs_to_jiffies64((__msecs) * 1000)

should have instead been

#define usecs_to_cputime64(__msecs) nsecs_to_cputime64((__msecs) * 1000)

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