[PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functions

- introduce the nsec_t type

- basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(),
  ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index c689b53297cf..cf5a4582a672 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -652,6 +652,42 @@ void set_normalized_timespec(struct timespec *ts, time_t sec, long nsec)
         ts->tv_nsec = nsec;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ns_to_timespec - Convert nanoseconds to timespec
+ * @nsec:       the nanoseconds value to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the timespec representation of the nsec parameter.
+ */
+inline struct timespec ns_to_timespec(const nsec_t nsec)
+{
+        struct timespec ts;
+
+        if (nsec)
+                ts.tv_sec = div_long_long_rem_signed(nsec, NSEC_PER_SEC,
+                                                     &ts.tv_nsec);
+        else
+                ts.tv_sec = ts.tv_nsec = 0;
+
+        return ts;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ns_to_timeval - Convert nanoseconds to timeval
+ * @nsec:       the nanoseconds value to be converted
+ *
+ * Returns the timeval representation of the nsec parameter.
+ */
+struct timeval ns_to_timeval(const nsec_t nsec)
+{
+        struct timespec ts = ns_to_timespec(nsec);
+        struct timeval tv;
+
+        tv.tv_sec = ts.tv_sec;
+        tv.tv_usec = (suseconds_t) ts.tv_nsec / 1000;
+
+        return tv;
+}
+
 #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
 u64 get_jiffies_64(void)
 {