+/* Functions below help us manage 'deferrable' flag */
+static inline unsigned int tbase_get_deferrable(struct tvec_base *base)
+{
+ return ((unsigned int)(unsigned long)base & TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG);
+}
+
+static inline struct tvec_base *tbase_get_base(struct tvec_base *base)
+{
+ return ((struct tvec_base *)((unsigned long)base & ~TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG));
+}
+
+static inline void timer_set_deferrable(struct timer_list *timer)
+{
+ timer->base = ((struct tvec_base *)((unsigned long)(timer->base) |
+ TBASE_DEFERRABLE_FLAG));
+}
+
+static inline void
+timer_set_base(struct timer_list *timer, struct tvec_base *new_base)
+{
+ timer->base = (struct tvec_base *)((unsigned long)(new_base) |
+ tbase_get_deferrable(timer->base));
+}
+
+/**
+ * __round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second
+ * @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
+ * @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen
+ *
+ * __round_jiffies() rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies)
+ * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers
+ * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as
+ * they fire approximately every X seconds.
+ *
+ * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire
+ * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal
+ * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power.
+ *
+ * The exact rounding is skewed for each processor to avoid all
+ * processors firing at the exact same time, which could lead
+ * to lock contention or spurious cache line bouncing.
+ *
+ * The return value is the rounded version of the @j parameter.
+ */
+unsigned long __round_jiffies(unsigned long j, int cpu)
+{
+ int rem;
+ unsigned long original = j;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't want all cpus firing their timers at once hitting the
+ * same lock or cachelines, so we skew each extra cpu with an extra
+ * 3 jiffies. This 3 jiffies came originally from the mm/ code which
+ * already did this.
+ * The skew is done by adding 3*cpunr, then round, then subtract this
+ * extra offset again.
+ */
+ j += cpu * 3;
+
+ rem = j % HZ;
+
+ /*
+ * If the target jiffie is just after a whole second (which can happen
+ * due to delays of the timer irq, long irq off times etc etc) then
+ * we should round down to the whole second, not up. Use 1/4th second
+ * as cutoff for this rounding as an extreme upper bound for this.
+ */
+ if (rem < HZ/4) /* round down */
+ j = j - rem;
+ else /* round up */
+ j = j - rem + HZ;
+
+ /* now that we have rounded, subtract the extra skew again */
+ j -= cpu * 3;
+
+ if (j <= jiffies) /* rounding ate our timeout entirely; */
+ return original;
+ return j;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__round_jiffies);
+
+/**
+ * __round_jiffies_relative - function to round jiffies to a full second
+ * @j: the time in (relative) jiffies that should be rounded
+ * @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen
+ *
+ * __round_jiffies_relative() rounds a time delta in the future (in jiffies)
+ * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers
+ * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as
+ * they fire approximately every X seconds.
+ *
+ * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire
+ * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal
+ * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power.
+ *
+ * The exact rounding is skewed for each processor to avoid all
+ * processors firing at the exact same time, which could lead
+ * to lock contention or spurious cache line bouncing.
+ *
+ * The return value is the rounded version of the @j parameter.
+ */
+unsigned long __round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j, int cpu)
+{
+ /*
+ * In theory the following code can skip a jiffy in case jiffies
+ * increments right between the addition and the later subtraction.
+ * However since the entire point of this function is to use approximate
+ * timeouts, it's entirely ok to not handle that.
+ */
+ return __round_jiffies(j + jiffies, cpu) - jiffies;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__round_jiffies_relative);
+
+/**
+ * round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second
+ * @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded
+ *
+ * round_jiffies() rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies)
+ * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers
+ * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as
+ * they fire approximately every X seconds.
+ *
+ * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire
+ * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal
+ * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power.
+ *
+ * The return value is the rounded version of the @j parameter.
+ */
+unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned long j)
+{
+ return __round_jiffies(j, raw_smp_processor_id());
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(round_jiffies);