From 0af99b13c9f323e658b4f1d69a1ccae7d6f3f80a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:24:52 -0700
Subject: [CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation

Due to rounding and inexact jiffy accounting, idle_ticks can sometimes
be higher than total_ticks. Make sure those cases are handled as
zero load case.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
index 8532bb79e5fc..dc6f357390e2 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static struct attribute_group dbs_attr_group = {
 static void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpu_dbs_info_s *this_dbs_info)
 {
 	unsigned int idle_ticks, total_ticks;
-	unsigned int load;
+	unsigned int load = 0;
 	cputime64_t cur_jiffies;
 
 	struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ static void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpu_dbs_info_s *this_dbs_info)
 		if (tmp_idle_ticks < idle_ticks)
 			idle_ticks = tmp_idle_ticks;
 	}
-	load = (100 * (total_ticks - idle_ticks)) / total_ticks;
+	if (likely(total_ticks > idle_ticks))
+		load = (100 * (total_ticks - idle_ticks)) / total_ticks;
 
 	/* Check for frequency increase */
 	if (load > dbs_tuners_ins.up_threshold) {
-- 
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