arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better

The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.

By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chris Metcalf
2011-02-28 13:21:52 -05:00
parent 04f7a3f12e
commit 1337173148
5 changed files with 34 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ STD_ENTRY(kernel_execve)
jrp lr
STD_ENDPROC(kernel_execve)
/* Delay a fixed number of cycles. */
STD_ENTRY(__delay)
{ addi r0, r0, -1; bnzt r0, . }
jrp lr
STD_ENDPROC(__delay)
/*
* We don't run this function directly, but instead copy it to a page
* we map into every user process. See vdso_setup().