kernel-fxtec-pro1x/include/asm-i386/time.h
Zachary Amsden 6cb9a8350a [PATCH] vmi: sched clock paravirt op fix
The custom_sched_clock hook is broken.  The result from sched_clock needs to
be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles.  The TSC is insufficient for this
purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly
represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be
interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled).

To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time,
that is scheduled time.  So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it
into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along.  This allows the tsc.c
code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops
backends.

It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct
abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine
implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I
ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even
got in the wrong units.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05 07:57:52 -08:00

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#ifndef _ASMi386_TIME_H
#define _ASMi386_TIME_H
#include <linux/efi.h>
#include "mach_time.h"
static inline unsigned long native_get_wallclock(void)
{
unsigned long retval;
if (efi_enabled)
retval = efi_get_time();
else
retval = mach_get_cmos_time();
return retval;
}
static inline int native_set_wallclock(unsigned long nowtime)
{
int retval;
if (efi_enabled)
retval = efi_set_rtc_mmss(nowtime);
else
retval = mach_set_rtc_mmss(nowtime);
return retval;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
#else /* !CONFIG_PARAVIRT */
#define get_wallclock() native_get_wallclock()
#define set_wallclock(x) native_set_wallclock(x)
#define do_time_init() time_init_hook()
#endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT */
#endif