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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-22 22:11:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-22 22:11:30 -0700
commit45c091bb2d453ce4a8b06cf19872ec7a77fc4799 (patch)
tree06fb2e05518ebfba163f8424e028e7faf5672d66 /include/asm-powerpc/delay.h
parentd588fcbe5a7ba8bba2cebf7799ab2d573717a806 (diff)
parent2191fe3e39159e3375f4b7ec1420df149f154101 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits) [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean" [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file ... Manually resolved conflicts in: drivers/net/phy/Makefile include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc/delay.h')
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diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h b/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h
index 057a6095547..f9200a65c63 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h
@@ -17,5 +17,18 @@
extern void __delay(unsigned long loops);
extern void udelay(unsigned long usecs);
+/*
+ * On shared processor machines the generic implementation of mdelay can
+ * result in large errors. While each iteration of the loop inside mdelay
+ * is supposed to take 1ms, the hypervisor could sleep our partition for
+ * longer (eg 10ms). With the right timing these errors can add up.
+ *
+ * Since there is no 32bit overflow issue on 64bit kernels, just call
+ * udelay directly.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+#define mdelay(n) udelay((n) * 1000)
+#endif
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_DELAY_H */