posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers are running
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:17:38 +0000 (16:17 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:31:40 +0000 (16:31 +0200)
commit555347f6c080d2f25265f981c963605b4dd3610d
tree3233ee51677e5098510771791c0be9d115992714
parenta85721601ad22ca4931e106dbc5b2cbf1d28bdea
posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers are running

Bring a new helper that the full dynticks infrastructure can
call in order to know if it can safely stop the tick from
the posix cpu timers subsystem point of view.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/linux/posix-timers.h
kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c