Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:08:30 +1100 | Subject | Re: [ppc] Disparity between sys_clock_getres and vdso implementation | From | (Tony Breeds) |
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:32:59PM +0530, Sripathi Kodi wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On PPC, I see a disparity between clock_getres implementations in the > vdso and syscall. I am using a IBM Openpower hardware and 2.6.24 kernel > with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. > > clock_getres call for CLOCK_REALTIME returns 1 millisecond. However, > when I edit arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso*/gettimeofday.S to force it to use > sys_clock_getres, I get 1 nanosecond resolution. The code in vdso seems > to be returning some pre-defined (incorrect) variables. > > Could you please let me know the reason for this? Is it something that > should be fixed in vdso?
Almost certainly It's something I missed when I enabled highres timers on powerpc.
I'll fix this tomorrow.
Yours Tony
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