[PATCH] Fix jiffies_to_time[spec | val] and converse to use
From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> In the current system (2.5.67) time_spec to jiffies, time_val to jiffies and the converse (jiffies to time_val and jiffies to time_spec) all use 1/HZ as the measure of a jiffie. Because of the inability of the PIT to actually generate an accurate 1/HZ interrupt, the wall clock is updated with a more accurate value (999848 nanoseconds per jiffie for HZ = 1000). This causes a 1/HZ interpretation of jiffies based timing to run faster than the wall clock, thus causing sleeps and timers to expire short of the requested time. Try, for example: time sleep 60 This patch changes the conversion routines to use the same value as the wall clock update code to do the conversions. The actual math is almost all done at compile time. The run time conversions require little if any more execution time. This patch must be applied after the patch I posted earlier today which fixed the CLOCK_MONOTONIC resolution issue.
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