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Hi!
> The const_udelay calculation relies on the "overflow" of the lower 32 bits
> of the mull operation. What's in the lower 32 bits is "cut off", so that a
> "rounding down" phenomenon exists. For large arguments to {n,u}delay, this does
> not matter, as udelay and ndelay round _up_ themselves. However, for small
> delays (for cyclone timer: up to 20ns; for pmtmr-based delay timer it's even
> up to 1500ns or 1us) it _is_ a critical error. Empirical testing has shown that
> it happens only (for usual values of loops_per_jiffies) if xloops is lower or
> equal to six. Let's be safe, and double that value, and add one xloop if
> xloop is smaller than 13.
Should not you just xloops++, always? Better safe than sorry. Plus you
have one less test and branch...
Pavel
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
>
> diff -ruN linux-original/arch/i386/lib/delay.c linux/arch/i386/lib/delay.c
> --- linux-original/arch/i386/lib/delay.c 2004-06-07 23:02:02.472656160 +0200
> +++ linux/arch/i386/lib/delay.c 2004-06-07 22:55:40.063791144 +0200
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
> __asm__("mull %0"
> :"=d" (xloops), "=&a" (d0)
> :"1" (xloops),"0" (current_cpu_data.loops_per_jiffy * HZ));
> + if (unlikely(xloops < 13))
> + xloops++;
> __delay(xloops);
> }
>
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