From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, tglx@linutronix•de, greg.weeks@timesys•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC: clockevents and HRT support
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:04:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162940684.28571.537.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45510C58.3010707@ru.mvista.com>
> That's not equivalent. What I wanted to cover with this option was 970
> weirdness of the decrementer interrupts being level triggered and effectively
> tied to the MSB of the decremeneter register...
> Also, 40x decrementer is not Book E compatible.
Well... Is this specific to the 970 or also happens on all
POWER4..5..6 ? (I don't remember off the top of my head). It should
probably be a runtime check then.
> > Also, what's the problem with ppc64 deterministic accounting that you
> > can't fix it ?
>
> Arch-specific accounting hooks which this feature makes use of can't be
> called from the generic clockevents code.
Then the generic clockevent code will have to be fixed or powerpc not
ported to it.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-07 21:05 [PATCH] PowerPC: clockevents and HRT support Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-07 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-07 22:44 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-07 23:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-11-07 23:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-08 0:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 1:19 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-11-08 2:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 14:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-08 2:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-08 14:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-10 8:32 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-10 14:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-11-10 23:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-11-12 18:30 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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