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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-08-27 19:17:07 -0700 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-08-27 19:17:07 -0700 |
commit | b30a72a7edfc64c8929104d5c2178aca489aa559 (patch) | |
tree | 2b26c155c318d08d946bd2d70cf815dcdb29a243 /arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h | |
parent | f1c5d30e1d79bbfb60eaf189db862d3cb2bcac92 (diff) | |
parent | c1b362e3b4d331a63915b268a33207311a439d60 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/cpu
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c
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 |