Re: [PATCH 08/19] target/ppc/pmu_book3s_helper.c: do an actual cycles calculation

[Richard Henderson]

On 8/9/21 3:10 AM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
+/*
+ * Set arbitrarily based on clock-frequency values used in PNV
+ * and SPAPR code.
+ */
+#define PPC_CPU_FREQ 1000000000
  
  static uint64_t get_cycles(uint64_t icount_delta)
  {
-    /* Placeholder value */
-    return icount_delta * 4;
+    return muldiv64(icount_to_ns(icount_delta), PPC_CPU_FREQ,
+                    NANOSECONDS_PER_SECOND);

So, unless you're going to do something real, you might as well just return icount_to_ns, 
and skip all of the no-op scaling.


r~