linux/arch/tile/include/asm/timex.h
Chris Metcalf 1337173148 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>
2011-03-01 16:20:04 -05:00

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/*
* Copyright 2010 Tilera Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
* NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for
* more details.
*/
#ifndef _ASM_TILE_TIMEX_H
#define _ASM_TILE_TIMEX_H
/*
* This rate should be a multiple of the possible HZ values (100, 250, 1000)
* and a fraction of the possible hardware timer frequencies. Our timer
* frequency is highly tunable but also quite precise, so for the primary use
* of this value (setting ACT_HZ from HZ) we just pick a value that causes
* ACT_HZ to be set to HZ. We make the value somewhat large just to be
* more robust in case someone tries out a new value of HZ.
*/
#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1000000
typedef unsigned long long cycles_t;
#if CHIP_HAS_SPLIT_CYCLE()
cycles_t get_cycles(void);
#else
static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
{
return __insn_mfspr(SPR_CYCLE);
}
#endif
cycles_t get_clock_rate(void);
/* Convert nanoseconds to core clock cycles. */
cycles_t ns2cycles(unsigned long nsecs);
/* Called at cpu initialization to set some low-level constants. */
void setup_clock(void);
/* Called at cpu initialization to start the tile-timer clock device. */
void setup_tile_timer(void);
#endif /* _ASM_TILE_TIMEX_H */