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1 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
2 /*
3  * linux/include/asm-alpha/timex.h
4  *
5  * ALPHA architecture timex specifications
6  */
7 #ifndef _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
8 #define _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
9 
10 /*
11  * Standard way to access the cycle counter.
12  * Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
13  *
14  * Only the low 32 bits are available as a continuously counting entity.
15  * But this only means we'll force a reschedule every 8 seconds or so,
16  * which isn't an evil thing.
17  */
18 
19 typedef unsigned int cycles_t;
20 
21 static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void)
22 {
23 	cycles_t ret;
24 	__asm__ __volatile__ ("rpcc %0" : "=r"(ret));
25 	return ret;
26 }
27 #define get_cycles get_cycles
28 
29 #endif
30