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author | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2016-04-20 21:34:15 +0200 |
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committer | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2016-05-22 21:39:25 +0200 |
commit | 54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe (patch) | |
tree | 873f576cebe662cdb3c8a6626ba6be193a0a6ef4 /arch/parisc/Kconfig | |
parent | parisc: Add ARCH_TRACEHOOK and regset support (diff) | |
download | linux-54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe.tar.xz linux-54b668009076caddbede8fde513ca2c982590bfe.zip |
parisc: Add native high-resolution sched_clock() implementation
Add a native implementation for the sched_clock() function which utilizes the
processor-internal cycle counter (Control Register 16) as high-resolution time
source.
With this patch we now get much more fine-grained resolutions in various
in-kernel time measurements (e.g. when viewing the function tracing logs), and
probably a more accurate scheduling on SMP systems.
There are a few specific implementation details in this patch:
1. On a 32bit kernel we emulate the higher 32bits of the required 64-bit
resolution of sched_clock() by increasing a per-cpu counter at every
wrap-around of the 32bit cycle counter.
2. In a SMP system, the cycle counters of the various CPUs are not syncronized
(similiar to the TSC in a x86_64 system). To cope with this we define
HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK and let the upper layers do the adjustment work.
3. Since we need HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK, we need to provide a cmpxchg64()
function even on a 32-bit kernel.
4. A 64-bit SMP kernel which is started on a UP system will mark the
sched_clock() implementation as "stable", which means that we don't expect any
jumps in the returned counter. This is true because we then run only on one
CPU.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig index 6c68c23dd7c2..dc117385ce2e 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ config PARISC select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK + select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK if (SMP || !64BIT) select ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP select CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS |