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author | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-02-28 13:21:52 -0500 |
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committer | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-03-01 16:20:04 -0500 |
commit | 13371731487896a6ef158b1cd74297f40a3da4bb (patch) | |
tree | af09fca3fd8811340b373faaddcdb528f8a07669 /arch/tile/kernel/entry.S | |
parent | 04f7a3f12e10032ee3d44df1a509dbf5b2001fce (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/entry.S')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/tile/kernel/entry.S | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S b/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S index fd8dc42abdcb..c3aa0676ed06 100644 --- a/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S @@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ STD_ENTRY(kernel_execve) jrp lr STD_ENDPROC(kernel_execve) -/* Delay a fixed number of cycles. */ -STD_ENTRY(__delay) - { addi r0, r0, -1; bnzt r0, . } - jrp lr - STD_ENDPROC(__delay) - /* * We don't run this function directly, but instead copy it to a page * we map into every user process. See vdso_setup(). |