[PATCH] AArch64: Add hp-timing.h

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jun 28 11:06:14 GMT 2021


* Wilco Dijkstra:

> Hi Florian,
>
>> Is the MSR called cntcvt_el0 or cntvct_el0?
>
> cntvct_el0 - it's just a random combination of characters!

Okay, then please fix the other occurence that is a typo.

>> I'm clearly missing something: If this is broken on some kernels, how is
>> this disabled?
>
> It's not enabled just to be extremely conservative - however I don't
> believe this is an issue in practice since it works fine even on the
> first AArch64 boards and servers.

I meant: How is this disabled in glibc on older kernels?  Or is this
code just dormant as of now?

Thanks,
Florian



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