x86: round_jiffies() for i386 and x86-64 non-critical/corrected MCE polling

This helps to reduce the frequency at which the CPU must be taken out of a
lower-power state.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
index 7c8ab423abe3..4d8450ee3635 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@ static void mcheck_timer(struct work_struct *work)
         if (mce_notify_user()) {
                 next_interval = max(next_interval/2, HZ/100);
         } else {
-                next_interval = min(next_interval*2, check_interval*HZ);
+                next_interval = min(next_interval*2,
+                                (int)round_jiffies_relative(check_interval*HZ));
         }
 
         schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
@@ -428,7 +429,8 @@ static __init int periodic_mcheck_init(void)
 { 
         next_interval = check_interval * HZ;
         if (next_interval)
-                schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
+                schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work,
+                                      round_jiffies_relative(next_interval));
         idle_notifier_register(&mce_idle_notifier);
         return 0;
 } 
@@ -720,7 +722,8 @@ static void mce_restart(void)
         on_each_cpu(mce_init, NULL, 1, 1);       
         next_interval = check_interval * HZ;
         if (next_interval)
-                schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work, next_interval);
+                schedule_delayed_work(&mcheck_work,
+                                      round_jiffies_relative(next_interval));
 }
 
 static struct sysdev_class mce_sysclass = {