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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-09-04 08:08:42 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-09-04 08:08:42 -0700
commit7203781c98ad9147564d327de6f6513ad8fc0f4e (patch)
tree5c29a2a04a626bf08a0d56fd8a0068b3c92ad284 /arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
parent671eef85a3e885dff4ce210d8774ad50a91d5967 (diff)
parentaf2e1f276ff08f17192411ea3b71c13a758dfe12 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into x86/core
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
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+/*
+ * linux/include/asm-alpha/timex.h
+ *
+ * ALPHA architecture timex specifications
+ */
+#ifndef _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
+#define _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
+
+/* With only one or two oddballs, we use the RTC as the ticker, selecting
+ the 32.768kHz reference clock, which nicely divides down to our HZ. */
+#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 32768
+
+/*
+ * Standard way to access the cycle counter.
+ * Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
+ *
+ * Only the low 32 bits are available as a continuously counting entity.
+ * But this only means we'll force a reschedule every 8 seconds or so,
+ * which isn't an evil thing.
+ */
+
+typedef unsigned int cycles_t;
+
+static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void)
+{
+ cycles_t ret;
+ __asm__ __volatile__ ("rpcc %0" : "=r"(ret));
+ return ret;
+}
+
+#endif