[PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3)

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Tue Dec 5 05:04:40 EST 2006


Hello.

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

>>Why is cycles_t 32-bits on some 
>>of the arches to begin with?

>     I guess this was done for speed reasons.

    The whole 64-bit timebase can't be rad atomically on PPC32. ARM probably 
has stricter limitations...

>>	Ingo

WBR, Sergei



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