On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaib...@ti.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 20:49:07, Thomas Klute wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> we're having some trouble getting useful results from Ftrace on OMAP3 >> (Gumstix Overo). As you can see in the example output below, function >> duration can't be displayed with a precision higher than about 30.5 us, >> which matches the frequency of the 32 kHz platform timer. For OMAP1, >> using OMAP_MPU_TIMER instead of CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER should provide >> better results [1], but I couldn't find anything similar for OMAP3. Just >> setting CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER=N didn't change the results. Did I miss >> anything, or isn't there any more precise timer? >> > > I believe you are using mainline kernel here, if yes, you should be enabling > the dmtimer using commandline argument, "clocksource="gp_timer".
Also you need to pass 'nohlt' to kernel since gp_timer can't be kept when cpu is idled in deep state. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
