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Commit 7d2f944a authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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clocksource: Provide a generic mult/shift factor calculation



MIPS has two functions to calculcate the mult/shift factors for clock
sources and clock events at run time. ARM needs such functions as
well.

Implement a function which calculates the mult/shift factors based on
the frequencies to which and from which is converted. The function
also has a parameter to specify the minimum conversion range in
seconds. This range is guaranteed not to produce a 64bit overflow when
a value is multiplied with the calculated mult factor. The larger the
conversion range the less becomes the conversion accuracy.

Provide two inline wrappers which handle clock events and clock
sources. For clock events the "from" frequency is nano seconds per
second which corresponds to 1GHz and "to" is the device frequency. For
clock sources "from" is the device frequency and "to" is nano seconds
per second.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091111134229.766673305@linutronix.de>
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