From 2eebdde6528a722fbf8e2cffcf7aa52cbb4c2de0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Cochran Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:47:06 +0100 Subject: timecounter: keep track of accumulated fractional nanoseconds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The current timecounter implementation will drop a variable amount of resolution, depending on the magnitude of the time delta. In other words, reading the clock too often or too close to a time stamp conversion will introduce errors into the time values. This patch fixes the issue by introducing a fractional nanosecond field that accumulates the low order bits. Reported-by: Janusz Użycki Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/timecounter.h | 19 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/timecounter.h b/include/linux/timecounter.h index af3dfa4e90f0..74f45496e6d1 100644 --- a/include/linux/timecounter.h +++ b/include/linux/timecounter.h @@ -55,27 +55,32 @@ struct cyclecounter { * @cycle_last: most recent cycle counter value seen by * timecounter_read() * @nsec: continuously increasing count + * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field + * @frac: accumulated fractional nanoseconds */ struct timecounter { const struct cyclecounter *cc; cycle_t cycle_last; u64 nsec; + u64 mask; + u64 frac; }; /** * cyclecounter_cyc2ns - converts cycle counter cycles to nanoseconds * @cc: Pointer to cycle counter. * @cycles: Cycles - * - * XXX - This could use some mult_lxl_ll() asm optimization. Same code - * as in cyc2ns, but with unsigned result. + * @mask: bit mask for maintaining the 'frac' field + * @frac: pointer to storage for the fractional nanoseconds. */ static inline u64 cyclecounter_cyc2ns(const struct cyclecounter *cc, - cycle_t cycles) + cycle_t cycles, u64 mask, u64 *frac) { - u64 ret = (u64)cycles; - ret = (ret * cc->mult) >> cc->shift; - return ret; + u64 ns = (u64) cycles; + + ns = (ns * cc->mult) + *frac; + *frac = ns & mask; + return ns >> cc->shift; } /** -- cgit v1.2.3