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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-09-04 08:08:42 -0700 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-09-04 08:08:42 -0700 |
commit | 7203781c98ad9147564d327de6f6513ad8fc0f4e (patch) | |
tree | 5c29a2a04a626bf08a0d56fd8a0068b3c92ad284 /arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h | |
parent | 671eef85a3e885dff4ce210d8774ad50a91d5967 (diff) | |
parent | af2e1f276ff08f17192411ea3b71c13a758dfe12 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into x86/core
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..afa0c45e3e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +/* + * 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 |