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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2015-03-11 21:16:30 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-12 10:16:38 +0100
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parentclocksource: Simplify the clocks_calc_max_nsecs() logic (diff)
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clocksource: Simplify the logic around clocksource wrapping safety margins
The clocksource logic has a number of places where we try to include a safety margin. Most of these are 12% safety margins, but they are inconsistently applied and sometimes are applied on top of each other. Additionally, in the previous patch, we corrected an issue where we unintentionally in effect created a 50% safety margin, which these 12.5% margins where then added to. So to simplify the logic here, this patch removes the various 12.5% margins, and consolidates adding the margin in one place: clocks_calc_max_nsecs(). Additionally, Linus prefers a 50% safety margin, as it allows bad clock values to be more easily caught. This should really have no net effect, due to the corrected issue earlier which caused greater then 50% margins to be used w/o issue. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> (for the sched_clock.c bit) Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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