[PATCH] PPC64 enable hp-timing

[Steve Munroe]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 10/25/2005 
05:51:33 PM:

> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:59 -0500, Steven Munroe wrote:
> 
> > +
> > +  fd = open ("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY);
> > +  if (__builtin_expect (fd != -1, 1))
> > +    {
> > +      /* XXX AFAIK the /proc filesystem can generate "files" only up
> > +         to a size of 4096 bytes.  */
> 
> I think that assumption isn't true. The seq_file mecanism deals
> transparently with that nowadays...
> 
Well if this is a problem, i386, ia64, and x86_64 have it too. They are 
all implemented the same way. sparc64 uses an 8K buffer.

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center