linux/kernel
Alexey Dobriyan 704503d836 mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838

On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange
way from the user's point of view:

	# echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
	# cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
	499

So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported
back.

TICK_NSEC = 999848
ACTHZ = 256039

Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue
of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
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irq PM: Introduce functions for suspending and resuming device interrupts 2009-03-30 21:46:54 +02:00
power mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macro 2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-26 16:05:42 -07:00
trace
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c async: remove the temporary (2.6.29) "async is off by default" code 2009-03-28 13:05:30 -07:00
audit_tree.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_debug.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup.c vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c cpumask: use set_cpu_active in init/main.c 2009-03-30 22:05:12 +10:30
cpuset.c
cred-internals.h
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma-coherent.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: kernel/fork.c 2009-03-30 22:05:13 +10:30
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c
hrtimer.c
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: Change kexec jump code ordering 2009-03-30 21:46:55 +02:00
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL 2009-03-30 22:05:11 +10:30
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL 2009-03-30 22:05:11 +10:30
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc 2009-03-30 23:19:24 +02:00
Makefile
marker.c
module.c Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
rcuclassic.c
rcupdate.c
rcupreempt_trace.c
rcupreempt.c
rcutorture.c cpumask: convert rcutorture.c 2009-03-30 22:05:16 +10:30
rcutree_trace.c
rcutree.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core 2009-03-30 22:05:17 +10:30
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
sched_stats.h
sched.c Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c
smp.c
softirq.c Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core 2009-03-30 22:05:17 +10:30
sys_ni.c
sys.c
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage" 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-03-30 17:17:35 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
workqueue.c cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code. 2009-03-30 22:05:16 +10:30