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[PATCH] TIMERS: add missing compensation for HZ == 250

Add missing compensation for (HZ == 250) != (1 << SHIFT_HZ) in
second_overflow().

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki and committed by
Linus Torvalds
4b8f573b 930fc45a

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kernel/timer.c
··· 752 752 else 753 753 time_adj += (time_adj >> 2) + (time_adj >> 5); 754 754 #endif 755 + #if HZ == 250 756 + /* Compensate for (HZ==250) != (1 << SHIFT_HZ). 757 + * Add 1.5625% and 0.78125% to get 255.85938; => only 0.05% error (p. 14) 758 + */ 759 + if (time_adj < 0) 760 + time_adj -= (-time_adj >> 6) + (-time_adj >> 7); 761 + else 762 + time_adj += (time_adj >> 6) + (time_adj >> 7); 763 + #endif 755 764 #if HZ == 1000 756 765 /* Compensate for (HZ==1000) != (1 << SHIFT_HZ). 757 766 * Add 1.5625% and 0.78125% to get 1023.4375; => only 0.05% error (p. 14)