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

Easwar Hariharan eahariha at linux.microsoft.com
Fri Nov 15 21:34:46 UTC 2024


On 11/15/2024 1:30 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the quick response, indeed this patch is already in tip[1], I
pulled it in for testing the series but missed out on removing it before
sending. Please review v2 that excludes this:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241115-converge-secs-to-jiffies-v2-0-911fb7595e79@linux.microsoft.com/

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b35108a51cf7bab58d7eace1267d7965978bcdb8

Thanks,
Easwar


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