Re: [patch 11/13] s390: instruction processing damage handling.

Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-25T20:14:52Z

Am Tuesday 25 April 2006 01:58 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > + tmp = get_clock();
>
> s390 has a get_clock()? I guess you don't use i2c much.
>
> We shouldn't use such generic-looking identifiers for arch-specific things.
> But I guess you can defer the great renaming to s390_get_clock() until
> something actually breaks.

Many places could probably just use get_cycles() if they don't need
sub-cycle resolution. Also such an update could be combined with
a move to the new store-clock-fast instruction.