Hello. Albert Cahalan wrote:
I haven't looked at all the new clock/timer code, is there any utility in having support for more than one clock source?
Of course, you may register as many as you like.
Sure, but is there any utility in registering more than the decrementer on PPC?
Not yet. I'm not sure I know any other PPC CPU facility fitting for clockevents. In theory, FIT could be used -- but its period is measured in powers of 2, IIRC.
I'd really like to have that as an option. It would allow oprofile to safely use hardware events on the MPC74xx "G4" processors. Alternately it would allow thermal events. It is safe to use at most one of the three (decrementer,profiling,thermal) interrupts. If two were to hit at the same time, badness happens.
Unfortunately, FIT exists only on Book E CPUs and MPC74xx aren't Book E, IIUC.
It's possible to wrapper the interrupt in something that divides down, calling the normal code only some of the time. I think one of the FIT choices is about 4 kHz on my system, which would be OK.
Erm, are you sure you have FIT (or is your system not MPC74xx based)?
Full oprofile functionality would be wonderful.
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