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Thomas Gleixner
10632008b9 clockevents: Prevent shift out of bounds
Andrey reported that on a kernel with UBSan enabled he found:

     UBSan: Undefined behaviour in ../kernel/time/clockevents.c:75:34

     I guess it should be 1ULL here instead of 1U:
            (!ismax || evt->mult <= (1U << evt->shift)))

That's indeed the correct solution because shift might be 32.

Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-10-25 10:43:15 +02:00
Jan Kara
504d58745c timer: Fix lock inversion between hrtimer_bases.lock and scheduler locks
clockevents_increase_min_delta() calls printk() from under
hrtimer_bases.lock. That causes lock inversion on scheduler locks because
printk() can call into the scheduler. Lockdep puts it as:

======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.15.0-rc8-06195-g939f04b #2 Not tainted
-------------------------------------------------------
trinity-main/74 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&port_lock_key){-.....}, at: [<811c60be>] serial8250_console_write+0x8c/0x10c

but task is already holding lock:
 (hrtimer_bases.lock){-.-...}, at: [<8103caeb>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x13/0x66

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #5 (hrtimer_bases.lock){-.-...}:
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f11d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x3e
       [<8103c918>] __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x1c/0x197
       [<8107ec20>] perf_swevent_start_hrtimer.part.41+0x7a/0x85
       [<81080792>] task_clock_event_start+0x3a/0x3f
       [<810807a4>] task_clock_event_add+0xd/0x14
       [<8108259a>] event_sched_in+0xb6/0x17a
       [<810826a2>] group_sched_in+0x44/0x122
       [<81082885>] ctx_sched_in.isra.67+0x105/0x11f
       [<810828e6>] perf_event_sched_in.isra.70+0x47/0x4b
       [<81082bf6>] __perf_install_in_context+0x8b/0xa3
       [<8107eb8e>] remote_function+0x12/0x2a
       [<8105f5af>] smp_call_function_single+0x2d/0x53
       [<8107e17d>] task_function_call+0x30/0x36
       [<8107fb82>] perf_install_in_context+0x87/0xbb
       [<810852c9>] SYSC_perf_event_open+0x5c6/0x701
       [<810856f9>] SyS_perf_event_open+0x17/0x19
       [<8142f8ee>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

-> #4 (&ctx->lock){......}:
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f04c>] _raw_spin_lock+0x21/0x30
       [<81081df3>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x1dc/0x34f
       [<8142cacc>] __schedule+0x4c6/0x4cb
       [<8142cae0>] schedule+0xf/0x11
       [<8142f9a6>] work_resched+0x5/0x30

-> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}:
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f04c>] _raw_spin_lock+0x21/0x30
       [<81040873>] __task_rq_lock+0x33/0x3a
       [<8104184c>] wake_up_new_task+0x25/0xc2
       [<8102474b>] do_fork+0x15c/0x2a0
       [<810248a9>] kernel_thread+0x1a/0x1f
       [<814232a2>] rest_init+0x1a/0x10e
       [<817af949>] start_kernel+0x303/0x308
       [<817af2ab>] i386_start_kernel+0x79/0x7d

-> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-...}:
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f11d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x3e
       [<810413dd>] try_to_wake_up+0x1d/0xd6
       [<810414cd>] default_wake_function+0xb/0xd
       [<810461f3>] __wake_up_common+0x39/0x59
       [<81046346>] __wake_up+0x29/0x3b
       [<811b8733>] tty_wakeup+0x49/0x51
       [<811c3568>] uart_write_wakeup+0x17/0x19
       [<811c5dc1>] serial8250_tx_chars+0xbc/0xfb
       [<811c5f28>] serial8250_handle_irq+0x54/0x6a
       [<811c5f57>] serial8250_default_handle_irq+0x19/0x1c
       [<811c56d8>] serial8250_interrupt+0x38/0x9e
       [<810510e7>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x5f/0x1e2
       [<81051296>] handle_irq_event+0x2c/0x43
       [<81052cee>] handle_level_irq+0x57/0x80
       [<81002a72>] handle_irq+0x46/0x5c
       [<810027df>] do_IRQ+0x32/0x89
       [<8143036e>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x33
       [<8142f23c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x49
       [<811c25a4>] uart_start+0x2d/0x32
       [<811c2c04>] uart_write+0xc7/0xd6
       [<811bc6f6>] n_tty_write+0xb8/0x35e
       [<811b9beb>] tty_write+0x163/0x1e4
       [<811b9cd9>] redirected_tty_write+0x6d/0x75
       [<810b6ed6>] vfs_write+0x75/0xb0
       [<810b7265>] SyS_write+0x44/0x77
       [<8142f8ee>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

-> #1 (&tty->write_wait){-.....}:
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f11d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x3e
       [<81046332>] __wake_up+0x15/0x3b
       [<811b8733>] tty_wakeup+0x49/0x51
       [<811c3568>] uart_write_wakeup+0x17/0x19
       [<811c5dc1>] serial8250_tx_chars+0xbc/0xfb
       [<811c5f28>] serial8250_handle_irq+0x54/0x6a
       [<811c5f57>] serial8250_default_handle_irq+0x19/0x1c
       [<811c56d8>] serial8250_interrupt+0x38/0x9e
       [<810510e7>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x5f/0x1e2
       [<81051296>] handle_irq_event+0x2c/0x43
       [<81052cee>] handle_level_irq+0x57/0x80
       [<81002a72>] handle_irq+0x46/0x5c
       [<810027df>] do_IRQ+0x32/0x89
       [<8143036e>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x33
       [<8142f23c>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x49
       [<811c25a4>] uart_start+0x2d/0x32
       [<811c2c04>] uart_write+0xc7/0xd6
       [<811bc6f6>] n_tty_write+0xb8/0x35e
       [<811b9beb>] tty_write+0x163/0x1e4
       [<811b9cd9>] redirected_tty_write+0x6d/0x75
       [<810b6ed6>] vfs_write+0x75/0xb0
       [<810b7265>] SyS_write+0x44/0x77
       [<8142f8ee>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

-> #0 (&port_lock_key){-.....}:
       [<8104a62d>] __lock_acquire+0x9ea/0xc6d
       [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
       [<8142f11d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x3e
       [<811c60be>] serial8250_console_write+0x8c/0x10c
       [<8104e402>] call_console_drivers.constprop.31+0x87/0x118
       [<8104f5d5>] console_unlock+0x1d7/0x398
       [<8104fb70>] vprintk_emit+0x3da/0x3e4
       [<81425f76>] printk+0x17/0x19
       [<8105bfa0>] clockevents_program_min_delta+0x104/0x116
       [<8105c548>] clockevents_program_event+0xe7/0xf3
       [<8105cc1c>] tick_program_event+0x1e/0x23
       [<8103c43c>] hrtimer_force_reprogram+0x88/0x8f
       [<8103c49e>] __remove_hrtimer+0x5b/0x79
       [<8103cb21>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x49/0x66
       [<8103cb4b>] hrtimer_cancel+0xd/0x18
       [<8107f102>] perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer.part.60+0x2b/0x30
       [<81080705>] task_clock_event_stop+0x20/0x64
       [<81080756>] task_clock_event_del+0xd/0xf
       [<81081350>] event_sched_out+0xab/0x11e
       [<810813e0>] group_sched_out+0x1d/0x66
       [<81081682>] ctx_sched_out+0xaf/0xbf
       [<81081e04>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x1ed/0x34f
       [<8142cacc>] __schedule+0x4c6/0x4cb
       [<8142cae0>] schedule+0xf/0x11
       [<8142f9a6>] work_resched+0x5/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &port_lock_key --> &ctx->lock --> hrtimer_bases.lock

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(hrtimer_bases.lock);
                               lock(&ctx->lock);
                               lock(hrtimer_bases.lock);
  lock(&port_lock_key);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

4 locks held by trinity-main/74:
 #0:  (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<8142c6f3>] __schedule+0xed/0x4cb
 #1:  (&ctx->lock){......}, at: [<81081df3>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x1dc/0x34f
 #2:  (hrtimer_bases.lock){-.-...}, at: [<8103caeb>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x13/0x66
 #3:  (console_lock){+.+...}, at: [<8104fb5d>] vprintk_emit+0x3c7/0x3e4

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 74 Comm: trinity-main Not tainted 3.15.0-rc8-06195-g939f04b #2
 00000000 81c3a310 8b995c14 81426f69 8b995c44 81425a99 8161f671 8161f570
 8161f538 8161f559 8161f538 8b995c78 8b142bb0 00000004 8b142fdc 8b142bb0
 8b995ca8 8104a62d 8b142fac 000016f2 81c3a310 00000001 00000001 00000003
Call Trace:
 [<81426f69>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
 [<81425a99>] print_circular_bug+0x18f/0x19c
 [<8104a62d>] __lock_acquire+0x9ea/0xc6d
 [<8104a942>] lock_acquire+0x92/0x101
 [<811c60be>] ? serial8250_console_write+0x8c/0x10c
 [<811c6032>] ? wait_for_xmitr+0x76/0x76
 [<8142f11d>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2e/0x3e
 [<811c60be>] ? serial8250_console_write+0x8c/0x10c
 [<811c60be>] serial8250_console_write+0x8c/0x10c
 [<8104af87>] ? lock_release+0x191/0x223
 [<811c6032>] ? wait_for_xmitr+0x76/0x76
 [<8104e402>] call_console_drivers.constprop.31+0x87/0x118
 [<8104f5d5>] console_unlock+0x1d7/0x398
 [<8104fb70>] vprintk_emit+0x3da/0x3e4
 [<81425f76>] printk+0x17/0x19
 [<8105bfa0>] clockevents_program_min_delta+0x104/0x116
 [<8105cc1c>] tick_program_event+0x1e/0x23
 [<8103c43c>] hrtimer_force_reprogram+0x88/0x8f
 [<8103c49e>] __remove_hrtimer+0x5b/0x79
 [<8103cb21>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x49/0x66
 [<8103cb4b>] hrtimer_cancel+0xd/0x18
 [<8107f102>] perf_swevent_cancel_hrtimer.part.60+0x2b/0x30
 [<81080705>] task_clock_event_stop+0x20/0x64
 [<81080756>] task_clock_event_del+0xd/0xf
 [<81081350>] event_sched_out+0xab/0x11e
 [<810813e0>] group_sched_out+0x1d/0x66
 [<81081682>] ctx_sched_out+0xaf/0xbf
 [<81081e04>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x1ed/0x34f
 [<8104416d>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x23/0x27
 [<81044505>] ? pick_next_task_fair+0xb1/0x120
 [<8142cacc>] __schedule+0x4c6/0x4cb
 [<81047574>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0xd7/0x108
 [<810475b0>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
 [<81056346>] ? rcu_irq_exit+0x64/0x77

Fix the problem by using printk_deferred() which does not call into the
scheduler.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-08-01 12:54:41 +02:00
Preeti U Murthy
da7e6f45c3 time: Change the return type of clockevents_notify() to integer
The broadcast framework can potentially be made use of by archs which do not have an
external clock device as well. Then, it is required that one of the CPUs need
to handle the broadcasting of wakeup IPIs to the CPUs in deep idle. As a
result its local timers should remain functional all the time. For such
a CPU, the BROADCAST_ENTER notification has to fail indicating that its clock
device cannot be shutdown. To make way for this support, change the return
type of tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() and hence clockevents_notify() to
indicate such scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140207080606.17187.78306.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-07 15:34:29 +01:00
Soren Brinkmann
fe79a9ba11 clockevents: Adjust timer interval when frequency changes
clockevent devices in periodic mode are not updated when the frequency
of the device changes. Issue a dev->set_mode() callback which forces
the device to reevaluate the timer settings.

Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-3-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-07 15:34:29 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
627ee7947e clockevents: Serialize calls to clockevents_update_freq() in the core
We can identify the broadcast device in the core and serialize all
callers including interrupts on a different CPU against the update.
Also, disabling interrupts is moved into the core allowing callers to
leave interrutps enabled when calling clockevents_update_freq().

Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Soeren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391466877-28908-2-git-send-email-soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-07 15:34:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
87093826aa Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes in this cycle were:

   - Updated full dynticks support.

   - Event stream support for architected (ARM) timers.

   - ARM clocksource driver updates.

   - Move arm64 to using the generic sched_clock framework & resulting
     cleanup in the generic sched_clock code.

   - Misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  x86/time: Honor ACPI FADT flag indicating absence of a CMOS RTC
  clocksource: sun4i: remove IRQF_DISABLED
  clocksource: sun4i: Report the minimum tick that we can program
  clocksource: sun4i: Select CLKSRC_MMIO
  clocksource: Provide timekeeping for efm32 SoCs
  clocksource: em_sti: convert to clk_prepare/unprepare
  time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers
  timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
  alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist
  clocksource: arch_timer: Do not register arch_sys_counter twice
  timer stats: Add a 'Collection: active/inactive' line to timer usage statistics
  sched_clock: Remove sched_clock_func() hook
  arch_timer: Move to generic sched_clock framework
  clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Remove IRQF_DISABLED
  clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Improve driver robustness
  clocksource: tcb_clksrc: Replace clk_enable/disable with clk_prepare_enable/disable_unprepare
  clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Use clocksource for suspend timekeeping
  clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Mark a few more functions as __init
  clocksource: Put nodes passed to CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE callbacks centrally
  arm: zynq: Enable arm_global_timer
  ...
2013-11-12 10:36:00 +09:00
Thomas Gleixner
97b9410643 clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion
Marc Kleine-Budde pointed out, that commit 77cc982 "clocksource: use
clockevents_config_and_register() where possible" caused a regression
for some of the converted subarchs.

The reason is, that the clockevents core code converts the minimal
hardware tick delta to a nanosecond value for core internal
usage. This conversion is affected by integer math rounding loss, so
the backwards conversion to hardware ticks will likely result in a
value which is less than the configured hardware limitation. The
affected subarchs used their own workaround (SIGH!) which got lost in
the conversion.

The solution for the issue at hand is simple: adding evt->mult - 1 to
the shifted value before the integer divison in the core conversion
function takes care of it. But this only works for the case where for
the scaled math mult/shift pair "mult <= 1 << shift" is true. For the
case where "mult > 1 << shift" we can apply the rounding add only for
the minimum delta value to make sure that the backward conversion is
not less than the given hardware limit. For the upper bound we need to
omit the rounding add, because the backwards conversion is always
larger than the original latch value. That would violate the upper
bound of the hardware device.

Though looking closer at the details of that function reveals another
bogosity: The upper bounds check is broken as well. Checking for a
resulting "clc" value greater than KTIME_MAX after the conversion is
pointless. The conversion does:

      u64 clc = (latch << evt->shift) / evt->mult;

So there is no sanity check for (latch << evt->shift) exceeding the
64bit boundary. The latch argument is "unsigned long", so on a 64bit
arch the handed in argument could easily lead to an unnoticed shift
overflow. With the above rounding fix applied the calculation before
the divison is:

       u64 clc = (latch << evt->shift) + evt->mult - 1;

So we need to make sure, that neither the shift nor the rounding add
is overflowing the u64 boundary.

[ukl: move assignment to rnd after eventually changing mult, fix build
 issue and correct comment with the right math]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com
Cc: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: kernel@pengutronix.de
Cc: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380052223-24139-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
2013-10-23 12:51:21 +02:00
Patrick Palka
891292a767 time: Fix signedness bug in sysfs_get_uname() and its callers
sysfs_get_uname() is erroneously declared as returning size_t even
though it may return a negative value, specifically -EINVAL.  Its
callers then check whether its return value is less than zero and indeed
that is never the case for size_t.

This patch changes sysfs_get_uname() to return ssize_t and makes sure
its callers use ssize_t accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
[jstultz: Didn't apply cleanly, as a similar partial fix was also applied
so had to resolve the collisions]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-10-18 16:45:58 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
03e13cf5ee clockevents: Implement unbind functionality
Provide a sysfs interface to allow unbinding of clockevent
devices. The device is unbound if it is unused or if there is a
replacement device available. Unbinding of broadcast devices is not
supported as we don't want to foster that nonsense. If no replacement
device is available the unbind returns -EBUSY. Unbind is available
from the kernel and through sysfs, which is necessary to drop the
module refcount.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.499216659@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:18 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
501f867064 clockevents: Provide sysfs interface
Provide a simple sysfs interface for the clockevent devices. Show the
current active clockevent device.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.371634778@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:17 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ccf33d6880 clockevents: Add module refcount
We want to be able to remove clockevent modules as well. Add a
refcount so we don't remove a module with an active clock event
device.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.307435149@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:17 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
8c53daf63f clockevents: Move the tick_notify() switch case to clockevents_notify()
No need to call another function and have duplicated cases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.235746557@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:16 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7172a286ce clockevents: Get rid of the notifier chain
7+ years and still a single user. Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.098520211@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:16 +02:00
Shawn Guo
c35ef95c27 clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use
clockevents_config_and_register is a handy helper for clockevent
drivers, some of which might support module build, so export the symbol.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2013-01-14 10:12:37 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
adc78e6b99 timekeeping: Add suspend and resume of clock event devices
Some clock event devices, for example such that belong to PM domains,
need to be handled in a spcial way during the timekeeping suspend
and resume (which takes place in the system core, or "syscore",
stages of system power transitions) in analogy with clock sources.

Introduce .suspend() and .resume() callbacks for clock event devices
that will be executed by timekeeping_suspend/_resume(), respectively,
next the the clock sources' .suspend() and .resume() callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-09-04 01:36:01 +02:00
Magnus Damm
e5400321a6 clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
Make clockevents_config() into a global symbol to allow it to be used
by compiled-in clockevent drivers. This is needed by drivers that want
to update the timer frequency after registration time.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: olof@lixom.net
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120509143934.27521.46553.sendpatchset@w520
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-25 01:44:51 +02:00
Kay Sievers
7239f65cf3 clockevents: remove sysdev.h
This isn't needed in the clockevents.c file, and the header file is
going away soon, so just remove the #include

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-21 16:12:37 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
65516f8a7c clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
There is at least one architecture (s390) with a sane clockevent device
that can be programmed with the equivalent of a ktime. No need to create
a delta against the current time, the ktime can be used directly.

A new clock device function 'set_next_ktime' is introduced that is called
with the unmodified ktime for the timer if the clock event device has the 
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME bit set.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.815350967@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
d1748302f7 clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.

In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1b054b67d3 clockevents: Handle empty cpumask gracefully
For UP it's stupid to request an initialized cpumask for the clock
event devices. Though we need the mask set even on UP to avoid a
horrible ifdeffery especially in the broadcast code.

For SMP we can at least try to survive with a warning and set the
cpumask of the cpu we're running on. That gives a decent chance to
bring the machine up and retrieve the debug info.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
2011-06-03 11:13:33 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
c0e299b1a9 clockevents/source: Use u64 to make 32bit happy
unsigned long is not 64bit on 32bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-20 10:50:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
80b816b736 clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an active clock event device
Some ARM SoCs have clock event devices which have their frequency
modified due to frequency scaling. Provide an interface which allows
to reconfigure an active device. After reconfiguration reprogram the
current pending event.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.437459958%40linutronix.de%3E
2011-05-19 14:24:16 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
57f0fcbe1d clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
All clockevent devices have the same open coded initialization
functions. Provide an interface which does all necessary
initialization in the core code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.331975870%40linutronix.de%3E
2011-05-19 14:24:15 +02:00
Torben Hohn
e2830b5c1b time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.

[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
  	file. Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31 19:26:50 +01:00
Xiaotian Feng
ea9d8e3f45 clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
Marc reported that the BUG_ON in clockevents_notify() triggers on his
system. This happens because the kernel tries to remove an active
clock event device (used for broadcasting) from the device list.

The handling of devices which can be used as per cpu device and as a
global broadcast device is suboptimal.

The simplest solution for now (and for stable) is to check whether the
device is used as global broadcast device, but this needs to be
revisited.

[ tglx: restored the cpuweight check and massaged the changelog ]

Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262834564-13033-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-18 14:44:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
3cd312c3e8 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Remove duplicate setting of new_base in __mod_timer()
  clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplug
2009-12-19 09:47:18 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
b5f91da0a6 clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlock
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 23:55:34 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
bb6eddf767 clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplug
Xiaotian Feng triggered a list corruption in the clock events list on
CPU hotplug and debugged the root cause.

If a CPU registers more than one per cpu clock event device, then only
the active clock event device is removed on CPU_DEAD. The unused
devices are kept in the clock events device list.

On CPU up the clock event devices are registered again, which means
that we list_add an already enqueued list_head. That results in list
corruption.

Resolve this by removing all devices which are associated to the dead
CPU on CPU_DEAD.

Reported-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-11 10:28:08 +01:00
H Hartley Sweeten
8e1a928a2e clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
Include "tick-internal.h" in order to pick up the extern function
prototype for clockevents_shutdown(). This quiets the following sparse
build noise:

  warning: symbol 'clockevents_shutdown' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
LKML-Reference: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE190901E24550@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-18 12:31:48 +01:00
Jon Hunter
97813f2fe7 nohz: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for more than 2.15 seconds
In the dynamic tick code, "max_delta_ns" (member of the
"clock_event_device" structure) represents the maximum sleep time
that can occur between timer events in nanoseconds.

The variable, "max_delta_ns", is defined as an unsigned long
which is a 32-bit integer for 32-bit machines and a 64-bit
integer for 64-bit machines (if -m64 option is used for gcc).
The value of max_delta_ns is set by calling the function
"clockevent_delta2ns()" which returns a maximum value of LONG_MAX.
For a 32-bit machine LONG_MAX is equal to 0x7fffffff and in
nanoseconds this equates to ~2.15 seconds. Hence, the maximum
sleep time for a 32-bit machine is ~2.15 seconds, where as for
a 64-bit machine it will be many years.

This patch changes the type of max_delta_ns to be "u64" instead of
"unsigned long" so that this variable is a 64-bit type for both 32-bit
and 64-bit machines. It also changes the maximum value returned by
clockevent_delta2ns() to KTIME_MAX.  Hence this allows a 32-bit
machine to sleep for longer than ~2.15 seconds. Please note that this
patch also changes "min_delta_ns" to be "u64" too and although this is
unnecessary, it makes the patch simpler as it avoids to fixup all
callers of clockevent_delta2ns().

[ tglx: changed "unsigned long long" to u64 as we use this data type
  	through out the time code ]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-3-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-13 20:46:24 +01:00
Suresh Siddha
f833bab87f clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock
Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at
some places and interrupts disabled at some other places.

This results in a deadlock in this scenario.

cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled
cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled
cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus.

This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting
for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not
reaching the rendezvous point.

Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with
interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock.

Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so
that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier
chain.

This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous
logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add
a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks
which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-19 18:15:10 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6ff7041dbf hrtimer: Fix migration expiry check
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
code implementing that check has two flaws:

- for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
  events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
  timers.

- the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
  but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
  nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.

The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.

In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.

Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:32:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
19035e5b5d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
  timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
  timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
  timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
  timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred

Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
eea08f32ad timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.

While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.

[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Magnus Damm
c81fc2c331 clockevent: export register_device and delta2ns
Export the following symbols using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL:
 - clockevent_delta2ns
 - clockevents_register_device

This allows us to build SuperH clockevent and clocksource
drivers as modules, see drivers/clocksource/sh_*.c

[ Impact: allow modular build of clockevent drivers ]

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090501055247.8286.64067.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-02 11:51:07 +02:00
Magnus Damm
2d68259db2 clockevents: let set_mode() setup delta information
Allow the set_mode() clockevent callback to decide and fill in delta
details such as shift, mult, max_delta_ns and min_delta_ns.

With this change the clockevent can be registered without delta details
which allows us to keep the parent clock disabled until the clockevent
gets setup using set_mode().

Letting set_mode() fill in or update delta details allows us to save
power by disabling the parent clock while the clockevent is unused.
This may however make the parent clock rate change, so next time the
clockevent gets enabled we need let set_mode() to update the detla
details accordingly. Doing it at registration time is not enough.

Furthermore, the delta details seem unused in the case of periodic-only
clockevent drivers, so this change also allows registration of such
drivers without the delta details filled in.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-16 12:27:39 +01:00
Rusty Russell
320ab2b0b1 cpumask: convert struct clock_event_device to cpumask pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs

struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the ->broadcast function.

Another single-patch change.  For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-13 21:20:26 +10:30
Thomas Gleixner
2344abbcbd clockevents: make device shutdown robust
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the
clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible
stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it
claims to wait on a event already.

This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem,
where systems need key press to come back to life.

Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut
down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that
and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we
can not touch the next_event value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-16 13:47:02 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7c1e768974 clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Li Zefan
3eb056764d time: fix typo in comments
Fix typo in comments.

BTW: I have to fix coding style in arch/ia64/kernel/time.c also, otherwise
checkpatch.pl will be complaining.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
Li Zefan
0b858e6ff9 clockevent: simplify list operations
list_for_each_safe() suffices here.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
45fe4fe191 x86: make clockevents more robust
detect zero event-device multiplicators - they then cause
division-by-zero crashes if a clockevent has been initialized
incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:03 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
167b1de3ee clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry
The hrtimer problem with large relative timeouts resulting in a
negative expiry time went unnoticed as there is no check in the
clockevents_program_event() code. Put a check there with a WARN_ONCE
to avoid such problems in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07 19:16:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
de68d9b173 clockevents: Allow build w/o run-tine usage for migration purposes
Migration aid to allow preparatory patches which introduce not yet
used parts of clock events code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2007-10-12 23:04:05 +02:00
Miao Xie
6ddfca9548 timer: remove clockevents_unregister_notifier
I find a function(clockevents_unregister_notifier) which is not called by
anything in tree.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:42 -07:00
Andi Kleen
78c1b06574 Remove clockevents_{release,request}_device
Not called by anything in tree.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
291bc047e1 [PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for now
The current sysfs support of clockevents does not obey the "only one
value per file" rule.

The real fix is not 2.6.21 material. Therefor remove the sysfs support
for now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-26 14:07:23 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
d316c57ff6 [PATCH] clockevents: add core functionality
Architectures register their clock event devices, in the clock events core.
Users of the clockevents core can get clock event devices for their use.  The
clockevents core code provides notification mechanisms for various clock
related management events.

This allows to control the clock event devices without the architectures
having to worry about the details of function assignment.  This is also a
preliminary for high resolution timers and dynamic ticks to allow the core
code to control the clock functionality without intrusive changes to the
architecture code.

[Fixes-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00