[RFC PATCH 03/10] alpha: Force the user-visible HZ to a constant 1024.

From: Richard Henderson
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 13:37:41 EST


This kernel/user split was done long ago for other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/param.h | 8 +++++---
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/param.h | 7 -------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/param.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/param.h
index bf46af5..a5b68b2 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/param.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/param.h
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@

#include <uapi/asm/param.h>

-#define HZ CONFIG_HZ
-#define USER_HZ HZ
-# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC HZ /* frequency at which times() counts */
+# undef HZ
+# define HZ CONFIG_HZ
+# define USER_HZ 1024
+# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC USER_HZ /* frequency at which times() counts */
+
#endif /* _ASM_ALPHA_PARAM_H */
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/param.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/param.h
index 29daed8..dbcd983 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/param.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/param.h
@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PARAM_H
#define _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PARAM_H

-/* ??? Gross. I don't want to parameterize this, and supposedly the
- hardware ignores reprogramming. We also need userland buy-in to the
- change in HZ, since this is visible in the wait4 resources etc. */
-
-#ifndef __KERNEL__
#define HZ 1024
-#endif

#define EXEC_PAGESIZE 8192

@@ -17,5 +11,4 @@

#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 64 /* max length of hostname */

-
#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PARAM_H */
--
1.8.1.4

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