> To avoid these kind of doubts may I suggest using the time > conversion definitions of include/linux/time.h? > > It would be much easier to understand the intention with > NSEC_PER_SEC, USEC_PER_SEC etc (comments would also help) Ok, here's an updated version that makes the conversions a bit clearer. Tested and run on i386/x86-64. --- ibmaem: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit platforms Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong at us.ibm.com> --- drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c index 22fa7d6..3013492 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ #include <linux/idr.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/math64.h> +#include <linux/time.h> #define REFRESH_INTERVAL (HZ) #define IPMI_TIMEOUT (30 * HZ) @@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ #define AEM_DEFAULT_POWER_INTERVAL 1000 #define AEM_MIN_POWER_INTERVAL 200 +#define UJ_PER_MJ 1000L static DEFINE_IDR(aem_idr); static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(aem_idr_lock); @@ -841,7 +844,7 @@ static ssize_t aem_show_power(struct device *dev, { struct sensor_device_attribute *attr = to_sensor_dev_attr(devattr); struct aem_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev); - u64 before, after, time; + u64 before, after, delta, time; signed long leftover; struct timespec b, a; @@ -864,9 +867,9 @@ static ssize_t aem_show_power(struct device *dev, mutex_unlock(&data->lock); time = timespec_to_ns(&a) - timespec_to_ns(&b); - time /= 1000; + delta = (after - before) * UJ_PER_MJ; - return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", (after - before) * 1000000000 / time); + return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", div64_u64(delta * NSEC_PER_SEC, time)); } /* Display energy use */