[PATCH] AArch64: Add hp-timing.h

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jun 28 11:39:58 GMT 2021


* Wilco Dijkstra via Libc-alpha:

> Hi Florian,
>
>> I meant: How is this disabled in glibc on older kernels?  Or is this
>> code just dormant as of now?
>
> As is, the timer is not used at all in the GLIBC installation - it is
> only used for timing in benchtests. So if you somehow managed to
> install a new distro on an obsolete kernel, then there still wouldn't
> be any issues.

Ah, thanks, that is what I was missing.

Florian



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