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authorMichael J. Chudobiak <mjc@avtechpulse.com>2016-04-25 10:00:44 -0400
committerMichael J. Chudobiak <mjc@avtechpulse.com>2016-04-25 10:00:44 -0400
commita1df417e74aa6dae7352dc8cbb0ad471af5b7c69 (patch)
treec34b2311e37ea31db153c90cb8f4570374d05e78 /linux/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
initial Olimex linux tree from Daniel, originally Feb 3, 2016
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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