Re: [-mm patch] add timespec_to_us() and use it in kernel/tsacct.c

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On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:32:41 +0200
Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:21:29PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:30:19 -0400
> > Matt Reuther <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > I got an Error while compiling 2.6.18-rc3-mm2:
> > > 
> > >   AR      arch/i386/lib/lib.a
> > >   GEN     .version
> > >   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> > >   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
> > >   CC      init/version.o
> > >   LD      init/built-in.o
> > >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > > kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x45667): In function `bacct_add_tsk':
> > > include/linux/time.h:130: undefined reference to `__divdi3'
> > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > > 
> > > I attached the .config file.
> > > 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc3/2.6.18-rc3-mm2/hot-fixes/csa-basic-accounting-over-taskstats-fix.patch
> > should fix this, thanks.  
> 
> This doesn't look correct since do_div() does not guarantee to return 
> more than 32bit.

eh?  We use do_div() to do 64bit/something all the time??

> What about the patch below that adds a timespec_to_us() to time.h and 
> uses this function in kernel/tsacct.c?

Seems reasonable, but it'd be better as two patches..

Do we do timespec->microseconds anywhere else?
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