sched_clock always 0 and no process time accounting with 3.11-rc1
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jul 17 05:15:19 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:12:09PM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:03:55AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:19:25AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > Apparently the expression '(1 << 32)' evaluates to 1 on xtensa cross gcc, and
> > > x86_84 native gcc. According to my limited understanding, the C compiler is
> > > allowed to do so. This caused sched_clock_32() to return constant 0. I wonder
> > > how it didn't bite the ARM people who are using this code from quite some time
> > > (added LAKL to CC).
> >
> > It (a) used to be only 32-bit, and (b) <<32 on ARM evaluates to zero in
> > a 32-bit context (it's not a rotate).
> >
> > Patch looks fine.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation, I'll take it as an ack if you don't mind.
If you want it as an ack, use rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk as the email
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