Re: Not able to use HIGH_RES_TIMERS on ARM

[Ajeet Yadav]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:53 AM, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/22/2012 03:25 AM, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
>>
>> I understand your point,
>> Our target (2.6) always had ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET=y , but still we
>> were able to use the TRACER in past until the patch "kill
>> GENERIC_TIMER" published, anyone will ask me remove this patch and use
>> TRACER, becaue it was working before. :)
>
>
> Ajeet,
> Â ÂSorry, by TRACER, do you mean PREEMPT_TRACER or something else? And what
> specific 2.6.X kernel were you using?
IRQSOFF_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER, our old kernel was 2.6.35.
>
> Steven, I'm seeing:
>
> config PREEMPT_TRACER
> Â Â Â Âbool "Preemption-off Latency Tracer"
> Â Â Â Âdefault n
> Â Â Â Âdepends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
>
> Do you have any context as to why is !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET flagged here?
>
> thanks
> -john
>
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