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Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc/delay.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-powerpc/delay.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h b/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h index 057a6095547..f9200a65c63 100644 --- a/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/delay.h @@ -17,5 +17,18 @@ extern void __delay(unsigned long loops); extern void udelay(unsigned long usecs); +/* + * On shared processor machines the generic implementation of mdelay can + * result in large errors. While each iteration of the loop inside mdelay + * is supposed to take 1ms, the hypervisor could sleep our partition for + * longer (eg 10ms). With the right timing these errors can add up. + * + * Since there is no 32bit overflow issue on 64bit kernels, just call + * udelay directly. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +#define mdelay(n) udelay((n) * 1000) +#endif + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_DELAY_H */ |