[v2] powerpc/ftrace: add powerpc timebase as a trace clock source

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Aug 10 19:26:59 AEST 2015


On Fri, 2015-24-04 at 08:54:44 UTC, "Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> Add a new powerpc-specific trace clock using the timebase register,
> similar to x86-tsc. This gives us
> - a fast, monotonic, hardware clock source for trace entries, and
> - a clock that can be used to correlate events across cpus as well as across
>   hypervisor and guests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/197165d44925bd0fa892

cheers


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