[PATCH 5/7] When converting ns,us,ms to sbt, return the ceil()

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Tue Dec 4 06:44:42 UTC 2018


From: imp <imp at FreeBSD.org>

of the result rather than the floor(). Returning the floor means that
sbttoX(Xtosbt(y)) != y for almost all values of y. In practice, this
results in a difference of at most 1 in the lsb of the sbintime_t. This
difference is meaningless for all current users of these functions, but
is important for the newly introduced sysctl conversion routines which
implicitly rely on the transformation being idempotent.

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---
 newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h b/newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h
index e5023ae64..5182dc14e 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h
+++ b/newlib/libc/include/sys/time.h
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ sbttobt(sbintime_t _sbt)
  * Decimal<->sbt conversions.  Multiplying or dividing by SBT_1NS results in
  * large roundoff errors which sbttons() and nstosbt() avoid.  Millisecond and
  * microsecond functions are also provided for completeness.
+ *
+ * These functions return the smallest sbt larger or equal to the number of
+ * seconds requested so that sbttoX(Xtosbt(y)) == y. The 1 << 32 - 1 term added
+ * transforms the >> 32 from floor() to ceil().
  */
 static __inline int64_t
 sbttons(sbintime_t _sbt)
@@ -183,7 +187,7 @@ static __inline sbintime_t
 nstosbt(int64_t _ns)
 {
 
-	return ((_ns * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500000000)) >> 32);
+	return ((_ns * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500000000) + (1ull << 32) - 1) >> 32);
 }
 
 static __inline int64_t
@@ -197,7 +201,7 @@ static __inline sbintime_t
 ustosbt(int64_t _us)
 {
 
-	return ((_us * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500000)) >> 32);
+	return ((_us * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500000) + (1ull << 32) - 1) >> 32);
 }
 
 static __inline int64_t
@@ -211,7 +215,7 @@ static __inline sbintime_t
 mstosbt(int64_t _ms)
 {
 
-	return ((_ms * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500)) >> 32);
+	return ((_ms * (((uint64_t)1 << 63) / 500) + (1ull << 32) - 1) >> 32);
 }
 
 /*-
-- 
2.16.4



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