Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:51:27 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Implement prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC |
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dean gaudet wrote: > > i might be too late... but shouldn't these #defines be PR_SET_RDTSC and > PR_GET_RDTSC or something like that? > > to me calling them PR_SET_TSC/PR_GET_TSC just seem like alternative ways > to change/get the TSC (and could even reduce to portable TSC > implementations... since such registers do exist on other architectures). >
I would argue no, the flag is "is the TSC available". RDTSC is an x86-specific name and would map poorly onto other architectures.
-hpa
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