The time base conversion factor is the 32 bit value
2^32 * 1000000 / time base frequency,
so the system time can be computed by
system time = time base * conversion factor / 2^32.
The expression in system_time() looks more complicated now, but is
actually much faster (factor 2.5 on my Mac mini). I'm positively
surprised, how good the assembly looks, that GCC 4 generates. There's
not that much potential for optimization by hand-coding the function.
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device in the Open Firmware implementation of boot loader and
pass its path to the kernel, where it's opened and used for
getting/setting the real time. The expensive atomic_*64() on PPC
32-bit make things a bit more complicated. Moreover, missing
64 bit multiplication and division instructions won't really
allow system_time() to be anywhere near as fast as on x86. :-/
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bus, and time base frequency) in the PPC boot loader, and propagate
them to the kernel via kernel_args.
* Now we use the correct time base frequency for timer calculations.
* Implemented PPC specific system info stuff. Added a few PPC CPU
types to <OS.h>.
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the fact that I couldn't find ptesync in an otherwise more complete
documentation I downloaded yesterday made me suspicious.
* arch_cpu_global_TLB_invalidate() uses tlbia now. The instruction is
optional, but so is tlbie (how I understood it is that both exist,
when the architecture implementation has a TLB). And the former loop
looked just scary.
* Implemented arch_cpu_user_TLB_invalidate(). It does just the same as
arch_cpu_global_TLB_invalidate().
* Some changes with respect to synchronization required on page table
and segment register updates.
* Some more minor renaming. Pulled a new function
remove_page_table_entry() out of unmap_tmap().
* In arch_vm_translation_map_init_post_area() we do now remap the page
table into the kernel address space, if it was without before. The
page table might actually be a good application for BAT, though.
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Added constructors to block_address_translation and segment_descriptor
that will clear its memory (could be done more efficiently though, it just
uses memset()).
Added definitions for the MSR (machine state register).
Added tlbsync() macro (direct assembler call).
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Added an alternative page_table_entry::SecondaryHash() signature.
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They are only used if the architecture doesn't support them directly.
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