jiffies: add utility function to calculate delta in ms

add jiffies_delta_to_msecs() helper func to calculate the delta between
two times and eventually 0 if negative.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/jiffies.h
index a27cf66523279c1a5d4aaa0d0087f1e9d48d170f..fa928242567db30769839ac8738be5dc58e372ab 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -447,6 +447,11 @@ static inline clock_t jiffies_delta_to_clock_t(long delta)
        return jiffies_to_clock_t(max(0L, delta));
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int jiffies_delta_to_msecs(long delta)
+{
+       return jiffies_to_msecs(max(0L, delta));
+}
+
 extern unsigned long clock_t_to_jiffies(unsigned long x);
 extern u64 jiffies_64_to_clock_t(u64 x);
 extern u64 nsec_to_clock_t(u64 x);