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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-27 10:50:54 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-27 10:50:54 +0100
commit4944dd62de21230af039eda7cd218e9a09021d11 (patch)
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parentftrace: warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c (diff)
parentLinux 2.6.28-rc2 (diff)
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Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent
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+#ifndef _ASM_X86_TIMER_H
+#define _ASM_X86_TIMER_H
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/pm.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+
+#define TICK_SIZE (tick_nsec / 1000)
+
+unsigned long long native_sched_clock(void);
+unsigned long native_calibrate_tsc(void);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+extern int timer_ack;
+extern int recalibrate_cpu_khz(void);
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
+
+extern int no_timer_check;
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+#define calibrate_tsc() native_calibrate_tsc()
+#endif
+
+/* Accelerators for sched_clock()
+ * convert from cycles(64bits) => nanoseconds (64bits)
+ * basic equation:
+ * ns = cycles / (freq / ns_per_sec)
+ * ns = cycles * (ns_per_sec / freq)
+ * ns = cycles * (10^9 / (cpu_khz * 10^3))
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 / cpu_khz)
+ *
+ * Then we use scaling math (suggested by george@mvista.com) to get:
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 * SC / cpu_khz) / SC
+ * ns = cycles * cyc2ns_scale / SC
+ *
+ * And since SC is a constant power of two, we can convert the div
+ * into a shift.
+ *
+ * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better precision, since
+ * cyc2ns_scale is limited to 10^6 * 2^10, which fits in 32 bits.
+ * (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca)
+ *
+ * -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
+ */
+
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cyc2ns);
+
+#define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
+
+static inline unsigned long long __cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
+{
+ return cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, smp_processor_id()) >> CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
+{
+ unsigned long long ns;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ ns = __cycles_2_ns(cyc);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+ return ns;
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_TIMER_H */