Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Rutland <> | Subject | [PATCHv2 0/4] clockevents: decouple broadcast mechanism from drivers | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:46:06 +0000 |
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This is an updated version of the series I posted back in December: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-December/137929.html
Changes since v1: * Drop removal of guards in smp.c * Removed useless evt->evt_handler check in tick_receive_broadcast * Fix up tick_receive_broadcast when !GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST * Fix checkpatch issues (multi-line strings)
Thanks go to Stephen Boyd and Santosh Shilimkar for their commments.
In some SMP systems, cpu-local timers may stop delivering interrupts when in low power states, or not all CPUs may have local timers. To support these systems we have a mechanism for broadcasting timer ticks to other CPUs. This mechanism relies on the struct clock_event_device::broadcast function pointer, which is a driver-specific mechanism for broadcasting ticks to other CPUs.
As the broadcast mechanism is architecture-specific, placing the broadcast function on struct clock_event_device ties each driver to a single architecture. Additionally the driver or architecture backend must handle the routing of broadcast ticks to the correct clock_event_device, leading to duplication of the list of active clock_event_devices.
These patches introduce a generic mechanism for handling the receipt of timer broadcasts, and an optional architecture-specific broadcast function which allows drivers to be decoupled from a particular architecture will retaining support for timer tick broadcasts. These mechanisms are wired up for the arm port, and have been boot-tested on a pandaboard.
Thanks, Mark.
Mark Rutland (4): clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver arm: Use generic timer broadcast receiver clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function arm: Add generic timer broadcast support
arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 11 ++--------- include/linux/clockchips.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ kernel/time/Kconfig | 4 ++++ kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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