Create a new "HAVE_GET_CYCLES" architecture option to specify which architectures provide 64-bits TSC counters readable with get_cycles(). It's principally useful to only enable high-precision tracing code only on such architectures and don't even bother building it on architectures which lack such support. It also requires architectures to provide get_cycles_barrier() and get_cycles_rate(). I mainly use it for the "priority-sifting rwlock" latency tracing code, which traces worse-case latency induced by the locking. It also provides the basic changes needed for the LTTng timestamping infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: David Miller CC: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Peter Zijlstra CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: Steven Rostedt CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org --- init/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/init/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/init/Kconfig 2008-10-16 11:25:07.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/init/Kconfig 2008-10-16 11:32:26.000000000 -0400 @@ -323,6 +323,16 @@ config CPUSETS config HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK bool +# +# Architectures with a 64-bits get_cycles() should select this. +# They should also define +# get_cycles_barrier() : instruction synchronization barrier if required +# get_cycles_rate() : cycle counter rate, in HZ. If 0, TSC are not synchronized +# across CPUs or their frequency may vary due to frequency scaling. +# +config HAVE_GET_CYCLES + def_bool n + config GROUP_SCHED bool "Group CPU scheduler" depends on EXPERIMENTAL -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/