[PATCH 22/22] jiffies: Define secs_to_jiffies()

Jeff Johnson quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com
Fri Nov 15 21:30:34 UTC 2024


On 11/15/2024 1:22 PM, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
> secs_to_jiffies() is defined in hci_event.c and cannot be reused by
> other call sites. Hoist it into the core code to allow conversion of the
> ~1150 usages of msecs_to_jiffies() that either:
> 
>  - use a multiplier value of 1000 or equivalently MSEC_PER_SEC, or
>  - have timeouts that are denominated in seconds (i.e. end in 000)
> 
> It's implemented as a macro to allow usage in static initializers.
> 
> This will also allow conversion of yet more sites that use (sec * HZ)
> directly, and improve their readability.
> 
> Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux at outlook.com>
> Signed-off-by: Easwar Hariharan <eahariha at linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Reviewed-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz at intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241030-open-coded-timeouts-v3-1-9ba123facf88@linux.microsoft.com

your signed-off-by should be last.

and you have a patch ordering problem since this patch must come before all
the patches that use secs_to_jiffies(), otherwise this series cannot be bisected



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