On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 18:44 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 02:09:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
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The other thing that could be done is to use
max(1ul, msecs_to_jiffies())
so that there's always some delay even if HZ <= 50
I may be mistaken, but I am quite sure that msecs_to_jiffies() always returns
at least 1 in such situations. Otherwise there would be lots of conversions
to 0 in the kernel.
Thanks Guenter
Nope, you're not mistaken.
Non 0 constants always return a value > 0
The existing uses like max(1ul, msecs_to_jiffies(<variable>))
just guard against <variable> being 0.