On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 23:16 +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote: > This patch implement a mips_timecounter_read(), which can be used to get > high precision timestamp without extra lock. > > It is based on the clock counter register and the > timecounter/cyclecounter abstraction layer of kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/mips/include/asm/time.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > arch/mips/kernel/time.c | 2 ++ Some patches touch core tracing code, and some are arch specific. Now the question is how do we go. I prefer that we go the path of the tracing tree (easier for me to test). But every patch that touches MIPS arch, needs an Acked-by from the MIPS maintainer. Which I see is Ralf (on the Cc of this patch set.) Thanks, -- Steve
