On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 15:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> do_div() is actually defined in terms of u64, not unsigned long long.
> Although afaict this will all work OK and all the usual type promotions
> will dtrt.
>
> Which begs the question: how _does_ the kernel represent nanoseconds? The
> time-management code is a bit undecided (search for long long in
> posix-cpu-timers.c, and for u64 in hrtimers.c). All a bit confused.
posix-cpu-timers.c needs some caring hand !
During the ktimers/hrtimers discussion we agreed on u64 resp. ktime_t to
hold the kernel internal values.
ktime_t is the preferred way as it is optimized for 32/64 bit archs and
all the conversion functions are available out of the box.
tglx
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