arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better

The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.

By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S b/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S
index fd8dc42abdcb..c3aa0676ed06 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/entry.S
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ STD_ENTRY(kernel_execve)
         jrp lr
         STD_ENDPROC(kernel_execve)
 
-/* Delay a fixed number of cycles. */
-STD_ENTRY(__delay)
-        { addi r0, r0, -1; bnzt r0, . }
-        jrp lr
-        STD_ENDPROC(__delay)
-
 /*
  * We don't run this function directly, but instead copy it to a page
  * we map into every user process.  See vdso_setup().
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
index f2e156e44692..49a605be94c5 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c
@@ -224,3 +224,13 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int multiplier)
 {
         return -EINVAL;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Use the tile timer to convert nsecs to core clock cycles, relying
+ * on it having the same frequency as SPR_CYCLE.
+ */
+cycles_t ns2cycles(unsigned long nsecs)
+{
+        struct clock_event_device *dev = &__get_cpu_var(tile_timer);
+        return ((u64)nsecs * dev->mult) >> dev->shift;
+}