Re: [RFC] [PATCH] allow low HZ values?

2010-10-11 Thread Tim Pepper
On Mon 11 Oct at 22:32:06 +0200 t...@linutronix.de said: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Tim Pepper wrote: > > > I'm not necessarily wanting to open up the age old question of "what is > > a good HZ", but we were doing some testing on timer tick overheads for >

[RFC] [PATCH] allow low HZ values?

2010-10-11 Thread Tim Pepper
s cy_ioctl() warns: drivers/char/cyclades.c:2761: warning: division by zero - drivers, drivers, drivers across all the arch's could use sanity checking -- Tim Pepper IBM Linux Technology Center Not-Signed-off-by: Tim Pepper diff --git a/include/linux/jiffies.h b/include/linux/j

Re: Why are CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT, CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT, and CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT not defined for PowerPC?

2007-11-28 Thread Tim Pepper
On Nov 28, 2007 11:56 AM, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These three Kconfig options: > > CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT > CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT > CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT > > Are not defined for ppc or powerpc, but they are defined for several other > architecture

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] powerpc: 64 bits irqtrace / lockdep support

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Pepper
On 10/14/07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is 2 patches, one from Christoph Hellwig that adds the backtrace support, > and one from Johannes Berg modified by me that adds the irq tracing support. > > This successfully boots a POWER5 pSeries machine. I'm going to run some