[PATCH] mull'ify multiplication with HZ in __const_udelay()
John Stultz mentioned on lkml ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/5/15 ) that calls to udelay() don't delay long enough, causing trouble e.g. in the USB subsystem. The following patches address this issue. Move the multiplication of (loops_per_jiffy * xloops) with HZ into the "mull" asm operation. This increases the accuracy of the delay functions largely: n usec delay on a system with loops_per_jiffy = 1500000 : n before after 1 1000 ticks 1499 ticks 10 14000 ticks 14999 ticks n usec delay on a system with loops_per_jiffy = 100000 : n before after 1 0 ticks 99 ticks 10 0 ticks 999 ticks 100 9000 ticks 9999 ticks As noted by Kurt Garloff, it's necessary to adjust for large loops_per_jiffies, as the multiplication of it with HZ fails for 4GHz or larger. So, John Stultz suggested multiplying xloops with 4 first, and multiplying with (HZ/4). Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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