From b2781fb5638afae7438b983a912ede126a8c5b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:46:04 +0000

Subject: [PATCH] Add support for PPC architecture, provide fallback

Add high precision cpu cycles support for powerpc and powerpc64.

Provide a fallback for other architectures and warn during

compilation.

Signed-off-by: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>

diff --git a/src/common/Cycles.h b/src/common/Cycles.h

index 6e47cde..bb47d5c 100644

--- a/src/common/Cycles.h

+++ b/src/common/Cycles.h

@@ -72,8 +72,15 @@ class Cycles {

     uint64_t cntvct;

     asm volatile ("isb; mrs %0, cntvct_el0; isb; " : "=r" (cntvct) :: "memory");

     return cntvct;

+#elif defined(__powerpc__) || defined (__powerpc64__)

+    // Based on:

+    // https://github.com/randombit/botan/blob/net.randombit.botan/src/lib/entropy/hres_timer/hres_timer.cpp

+    uint32_t lo = 0, hi = 0;

+    asm volatile("mftbu %0; mftb %1" : "=r" (hi), "=r" (lo));

+    return (((uint64_t)hi << 32) | lo);

 #else

-#error No high-precision counter available for your OS/arch

+#warning No high-precision counter available for your OS/arch

+    return 0;

 #endif

   }