[PATCH 2/3] clocksource: exynos_mct: cache mct upper count

[Doug Anderson]

From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Saves one register read.  Note that the upper count only changes every
~178 seconds with a 24MHz source clock, so it's likely it hasn't
changed from call to call.

Before: 1323852 us for 1000000 gettimeofday in userspace
After:  1173084 us for 1000000 gettimeofday in userspace

Note that even with this change the CPU is in exynos_frc_read() more
than 2% of the time in real world profiles of ChromeOS.  That
indicates that it's important to optimize.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
index ba3a683..7cbe4aa 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ static void exynos4_mct_frc_start(u32 hi, u32 lo)
 
 static inline cycle_t notrace _exynos4_frc_read(void)
 {
-	unsigned int lo, hi;
-	u32 hi2 = __raw_readl(reg_base + EXYNOS4_MCT_G_CNT_U);
+	u32 lo, hi;
+	static u32 hi2;
 
 	do {
 		hi = hi2;
-- 
2.0.0.526.g5318336

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