Re: new time code problem

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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 23:58, George Anzinger wrote:

The 64-bit conversion routine to convert 64-bit nsec time to a time spec.
gives an unnormalized result if the value being converted is negative.  I
think there are two ways to go about fixing this.  Most systems will give a
negative remainder and so need to just normalize.  On the other hand, some
systems will use div64 to do the division and, I think, it expects unsigned
numbers.  The attached patch uses the conservative approach of expecting
the div to be set up for unsigned numbers.

I came accross this when one of my tests set a time near 1 Jan 1970, i.e.
it is a real problem.


kernel/time.c |   13 ++++++++-----
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc.orig/kernel/time.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc/kernel/time.c
@@ -702,16 +702,19 @@ void set_normalized_timespec(struct time
 *
 * Returns the timespec representation of the nsec parameter.
 */
-inline struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec)
+struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec)
{
       struct timespec ts;

-       if (nsec)
+       if (nsec) return (struct timespec){0, 0};


Err, you mean propably

	if(!nsec)
		return (struct timespec){0, 0};

Why yes I do. I even found that and fixed it, but then failed to refresh the patch. Thanks...

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George Anzinger   [email protected]
HRT (High-res-timers):  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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