[PATCH] timekeeping: improve arithmetic divisions

From: Wen Yang
Date: Fri Jan 03 2020 - 10:55:40 EST


do_div() does a 64-by-32 division. Use div64_u64()
instead of do_div() if the divisor is u64,
to avoid truncation to 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index ca69290..bad76c1 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static int scale64_check_overflow(u64 mult, u64 div, u64 *base)
tmp *= mult;
rem *= mult;

- do_div(rem, div);
+ rem = div64_u64(rem, div);
*base = tmp + rem;
return 0;
}
--
1.8.3.1