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diff --git a/include/asm-i386/tsc.h b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..97b828ce31e --- /dev/null +++ b/include/asm-i386/tsc.h @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +/* + * linux/include/asm-i386/tsc.h + * + * i386 TSC related functions + */ +#ifndef _ASM_i386_TSC_H +#define _ASM_i386_TSC_H + +#include <linux/config.h> +#include <asm/processor.h> + +/* + * Standard way to access the cycle counter on i586+ CPUs. + * Currently only used on SMP. + * + * If you really have a SMP machine with i486 chips or older, + * compile for that, and this will just always return zero. + * That's ok, it just means that the nicer scheduling heuristics + * won't work for you. + * + * We only use the low 32 bits, and we'd simply better make sure + * that we reschedule before that wraps. Scheduling at least every + * four billion cycles just basically sounds like a good idea, + * regardless of how fast the machine is. + */ +typedef unsigned long long cycles_t; + +extern unsigned int cpu_khz; +extern unsigned int tsc_khz; + +static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void) +{ + unsigned long long ret = 0; + +#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC + if (!cpu_has_tsc) + return 0; +#endif + +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_X86_TSC) + rdtscll(ret); +#endif + return ret; +} + +extern void tsc_init(void); +extern void mark_tsc_unstable(void); + +#endif |