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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/clocksource.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/clocksource.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index c3be3c71bbad..15facb1b9c60 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -472,8 +472,11 @@ static u32 clocksource_max_adjustment(struct clocksource *cs) * @max_cyc: maximum cycle value before potential overflow (does not include * any safety margin) * - * NOTE: This function includes a safety margin of 50%, so that bad clock values - * can be detected. + * NOTE: This function includes a safety margin of 50%, in other words, we + * return half the number of nanoseconds the hardware counter can technically + * cover. This is done so that we can potentially detect problems caused by + * delayed timers or bad hardware, which might result in time intervals that + * are larger then what the math used can handle without overflows. */ u64 clocks_calc_max_nsecs(u32 mult, u32 shift, u32 maxadj, u64 mask, u64 *max_cyc) { |