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From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:29:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: sched_clock() clocksource handling.
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To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>, Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>, Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>, Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:17:18PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> sched: sched_clock() clocksource handling.
> 
> There are presently a number of issues and limitations with how the
> clocksource and sched_clock() interaction works today. Configurations
> tend to be grouped in to one of the following:
> 
>     - Platform provides a clocksource unsuitable for sched_clock()
>       and prefers to use the generic jiffies-backed implementation.
> 
>     - Platform provides its own clocksource and sched_clock() that
>       wraps in to it.
> 
>     - Platform uses a generic clocksource (ie, drivers/clocksource/)
>       combined with the generic jiffies-backed sched_clock().
> 
>     - Platform supports multiple sched_clock()-capable clocksources.
> 
> This patch adds a new CLOCK_SOURCE_USE_FOR_SCHED_CLOCK flag to address
> these issues, which can be set for any sched_clock()-capable clocksource.
> 
> The generic sched_clock() implementation is likewise switched over to
> always read from a designated sched_clocksource, which is default
> initialized to the jiffies clocksource and updated based on the
> availability of CLOCK_SOURCE_USE_FOR_SCHED_CLOCK sources. As this uses
> the generic cyc2ns() logic on the clocksource ->read(), most of the
> platform-specific sched_clock() implementations can subsequently be
> killed off.

80ea3bac3a47bc73efa334d0dd57099d0ff14216 ("ARM: OMAP: sched_clock()
corrected") seems to have switched omap from cyc2ns() to an open coded
calculation based on mult_orig because cyc2ns() uses the NTP-adjusted
mult instead.  Does that apply here or is that change incorrect?

Rabin