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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-02-28 13:21:52 -0500
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-03-01 16:20:04 -0500
commit13371731487896a6ef158b1cd74297f40a3da4bb (patch)
treeaf09fca3fd8811340b373faaddcdb528f8a07669 /arch/tile/kernel/time.c
parent04f7a3f12e10032ee3d44df1a509dbf5b2001fce (diff)
arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better
The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this out natively and not use a hypervisor service. By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits: first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/time.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/kernel/time.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
index f2e156e44692..49a605be94c5 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
@@ -224,3 +224,13 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int multiplier)
{
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Use the tile timer to convert nsecs to core clock cycles, relying
+ * on it having the same frequency as SPR_CYCLE.
+ */
+cycles_t ns2cycles(unsigned long nsecs)
+{
+ struct clock_event_device *dev = &__get_cpu_var(tile_timer);
+ return ((u64)nsecs * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
+}