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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-24 09:56:20 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-24 09:56:20 +0200
commitebdd90a8cb2e3963f55499850f02ce6003558b55 (patch)
treed153f917ed41d257ddafa22f9cc2201bfddf8f9c /arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
parent3c9339049df5cc3a468c11de6c4101a1ea8c3d83 (diff)
parent72d31053f62c4bc464c2783974926969614a8649 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/pebs
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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