[RFC PATCH 08/10] alpha: Always enable the rpcc clocksource for single processor

From: Richard Henderson
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 13:35:58 EST


Don't depend on SMP, just check the number of processors online.
This allows a single distribution kernel to use the clocksource
when run on a single processor machine.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/kernel/time.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
index dbd56ec..cadb82b 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
@@ -186,6 +186,31 @@ common_init_rtc(void)
init_rtc_irq();
}

+
+/*
+ * The RPCC as a clocksource primitive.
+ *
+ * While we have free-running timecounters running on all CPUs, and we make
+ * a half-hearted attempt in init_rtc_rpcc_info to sync the timecounter
+ * with the wall clock, that initialization isn't kept up-to-date across
+ * different time counters in SMP mode. Therefore we can only use this
+ * method when there's only one CPU enabled.
+ */
+
+static cycle_t read_rpcc(struct clocksource *cs)
+{
+ return rpcc();
+}
+
+static struct clocksource clocksource_rpcc = {
+ .name = "rpcc",
+ .rating = 300,
+ .read = read_rpcc,
+ .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
+ .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS
+};
+
+
/* Validate a computed cycle counter result against the known bounds for
the given processor core. There's too much brokenness in the way of
timing hardware for any one method to work everywhere. :-(
@@ -296,33 +321,6 @@ rpcc_after_update_in_progress(void)
return rpcc();
}

-#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
-/* Until and unless we figure out how to get cpu cycle counters
- in sync and keep them there, we can't use the rpcc. */
-static cycle_t read_rpcc(struct clocksource *cs)
-{
- cycle_t ret = (cycle_t)rpcc();
- return ret;
-}
-
-static struct clocksource clocksource_rpcc = {
- .name = "rpcc",
- .rating = 300,
- .read = read_rpcc,
- .mask = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
- .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS
-};
-
-static inline void register_rpcc_clocksource(long cycle_freq)
-{
- clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_rpcc, cycle_freq);
-}
-#else /* !CONFIG_SMP */
-static inline void register_rpcc_clocksource(long cycle_freq)
-{
-}
-#endif /* !CONFIG_SMP */
-
void __init
time_init(void)
{
@@ -364,20 +362,20 @@ time_init(void)
"and unable to estimate a proper value!\n");
}

+ if (hwrpb->nr_processors == 1)
+ clocksource_register_hz(&clocksource_rpcc, cycle_freq);
+
/* From John Bowman <bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: allow the values
to settle, as the Update-In-Progress bit going low isn't good
enough on some hardware. 2ms is our guess; we haven't found
bogomips yet, but this is close on a 500Mhz box. */
__delay(1000000);

-
if (HZ > (1<<16)) {
extern void __you_loose (void);
__you_loose();
}

- register_rpcc_clocksource(cycle_freq);
-
state.last_time = cc1;
state.scaled_ticks_per_cycle
= ((unsigned long) HZ << FIX_SHIFT) / cycle_freq;
--
1.8.1.4

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