Re: [ppc] Disparity between sys_clock_getres and vdso implementation

Tony Breeds
2008-02-04T06:48:20Z

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

linux.conf.au http://linux.conf.au/ || http://lca2008.linux.org.au/
Jan 28 - Feb 02 2008 The Australian Linux Technical Conference!