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Re: CPU Cycles Consumed by C program on PXA255

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Junaid Jamil wrote:
> I have run my C program on a board which have Intel PXA255 ARM
> processor. Now I want to know how much CPU cycles it consumed during
> its execution. I have calculated the CPU cycle counts on x86 using
> RDTSC instruction. Can any one please guid me how can I do the same on
> ARM with RDTSC level precision?

The PXA255 happens to have similar ARM extensions,
implemented in coprocessor 14.  CONFIG_OPROFILE seems
to enable support for them (see op_model_xscale.c).
Or you can access them directly with a few assembly
instructions; see chapter 8, "Performance monitoring",
in the PXA255 User's Manual.

Pascal


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