[ARM] 3980/1: extend the ARM Versatile sched_clock implementation from 32 to 63 bit
period This provides a 63 bit clock counter guaranteed to be monotonic over a period of 35583 days instead of a clock wrap every 179 seconds, as long as sched_clock() is called at least once every 89 seconds. This should not be a problem in practice, although a kernel timer could be scheduled every 80 seconds for example simply to call sched_clock() making sure top bits are always synchronized if need be. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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