This type conversion is a leftover that got ignored during the kcpustat conversion to nanosecs, resulting in build breakage with config having CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c: In function 'running_clock': arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:712:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'cputime_to_nsecs' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] return local_clock() - cputime_to_nsecs(kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]); All we need is to remove it. Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Oliver O'Halloran <ooh...@gmail.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 14e4855..bc84a8d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ unsigned long long running_clock(void) * time and on a host which doesn't do any virtualisation TB *should* equal * VTB so it makes no difference anyway. */ - return local_clock() - cputime_to_nsecs(kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]); + return local_clock() - kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]; } #endif -- 2.7.4