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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64: restore bogomips information in /proc/cpuinfo
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 04:55:10PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:15:05AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> > > + loops_per_jiffy / (500000UL/HZ),
> > > + loops_per_jiffy / (5000UL/HZ) % 100);
>
> Also, given nobody ever relied on any prior value here, can we at least
> print something here with some semblance of a meaning i.e. something
> related to the actual CPU speed and not some separate useless constant
> timer clock please?

There's also an argument that a 32-bit application should see the same
BogoMIPS value under an arm64 kernel as an arm kernel running on the
same machine. But I was never clear about what this value was intended
to mean anyway, despite all the shouting :)

Right now, I'm happy with anything that fixes libvirt and backports
easily.

Will


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