Re: [PATCH] ibmaem: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit platforms

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:55:27PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:34:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > This driver is littered with 64-bit divides and doesn't link on i386.
> > I'll make it depend on CONFIG_64BIT for now.
> 
> Oops, sorry, I didn't remember that one can't do 64-bit division on
> i386.  The patch below fixes that.
> ---
> ibmaem: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit platforms
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
> index 22fa7d6..f808ca3 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
>...
> @@ -864,9 +865,10 @@ static ssize_t aem_show_power(struct device *dev,
>...
>  	time = timespec_to_ns(&a) - timespec_to_ns(&b);
> -	time /= 1000;
> +	time = div_u64(time, 1000);
>  
> -	return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (after - before) * 1000000000 / time);
> +	return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n",
> +		       div64_u64((after - before) * 1000000000, time));
>  }
>...

What are you actually trying to do here?

Converting mJ/ns to uJ/s?

Or do you want to convert mJ/ns to Watt in which case you should
multiply "time" with 1000 instead of dividing it through 1000?

In any case you should only need one expensive 64bit division
and you can fold the operation with 1000 into the second division.

cu
Adrian

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