Re: [PATCH] Use 64bit timer values while calibrating BogoMips

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:52:16 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> 
> When calibrating BogoMips 32bit architectures using 
> read_current_timer will truncate the timer value to 32bit.
> This is a problem on x86 when the TSC timer is already beyond
> 2^32-1 or wraps during the calibration. The current code
> has no wrap handling.  
> 
> This could potentially lead to wrong BogoMips, causing 
> incorrect delays e.g. in hardware drivers and then difficult
> to track down bugs.

bogomips tends to not be used for that nowadays
> 
> Change read_current_timer() to always return a 64bit
> value even on 32bit and do the computation in 64bit.
> 
> Only found by code inspection; i haven't seen a failure 
> in the wild.
> 
> avr32/sparc64 read_current_timer() updated, but I haven't 
> compiled/tested them.

one general comment, if you really want 64 bit... you're using
"unsigned long long" all over, just use u64 instead.


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