Re: [RFC] The New and Improved Logdev (now with kprobes!)

[Daniel Walker]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:

> That's part of the reason for the changes that I made to the clocksource
> API . It makes it so instrumentation, with other things, can generically
> read a low level cycle clock. Like on PPC you would read the
> decrementer, and on x86 you would read the TSC . However, the
> application has no idea what it's reading.

Meant to say PowerPC uses the timebase clocksource. Sorry I've got to
many architectures swirling around.

Daniel

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