[PATCH] x86_64: Add useful constants to time.h

In timekeeping code, one often does need to use conversion constants. Naming
these leads to code that's easier to understand, showing the reader between
which units the conversion is made.

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
index 0cd696cee998c0ed24d28ead62335160bc4e47a0..2fa2987c9a079f5dd967996c631f406decfb4baf 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -28,10 +28,13 @@ struct timezone {
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 /* Parameters used to convert the timespec values: */
-#define MSEC_PER_SEC           1000L
-#define USEC_PER_SEC           1000000L
-#define NSEC_PER_SEC           1000000000L
-#define NSEC_PER_USEC          1000L
+#define MSEC_PER_SEC   1000L
+#define USEC_PER_MSEC  1000L
+#define NSEC_PER_USEC  1000L
+#define NSEC_PER_MSEC  1000000L
+#define USEC_PER_SEC   1000000L
+#define NSEC_PER_SEC   1000000000L
+#define FSEC_PER_SEC   1000000000000000L
 
 static inline int timespec_equal(struct timespec *a, struct timespec *b)
 {