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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/24] C6X: time management
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:35:06 +0200
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On Monday 08 August 2011, Mark Salter wrote:

> +#ifndef _ASM_C6X_TIMEX_H
> +#define _ASM_C6X_TIMEX_H
> +
> +/*
> + * This should be close enough...
> + */
> +#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE ((1000 * 1000000UL) / 6)
> +

We're about to remove that symbol and all its users, you should not need it
in 3.2 any more (though you still do in 3.1-rc1).

> +static cycle_t tsc_read(struct clocksource *cs)
> +{
> +	return get_cycles();
> +}

What is this good for? TSC is an x86 specific feature, so you should just
be able to use get_cycles directly.

	Arnd