clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver

Currently the broadcast mechanism used for timers is abstracted by a
function pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental
mechanism for broadcast is architecture-specific, this ties each
clock_event_device driver to a single architecture, even where the
driver is otherwise generic.

This patch adds a standard path for the receipt of timer broadcasts, so
drivers and/or architecture backends need not manage redundant lists of
timers for the purpose of routing broadcast timer ticks.

[tglx: Made the implementation depend on the config switch as well ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
index 8a7096fcb01ee1354e1d46c67d5d1ff9919bc742..e1089aa7816d4ad3f5fbb61e54954df0064d6f22 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ clockevents_calc_mult_shift(struct clock_event_device *ce, u32 freq, u32 minsec)
 extern void clockevents_suspend(void);
 extern void clockevents_resume(void);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+extern int tick_receive_broadcast(void);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
 extern void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg);
 #else

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index f113755695e2351ad9f32b7e38a808e98c0ad5f4..7cc81c57eb31cfe036795425ce7b60afd6376021 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -125,6 +125,23 @@ int tick_device_uses_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev, int cpu)
        return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+int tick_receive_broadcast(void)
+{
+       struct tick_device *td = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_device);
+       struct clock_event_device *evt = td->evtdev;
+
+       if (!evt)
+               return -ENODEV;
+
+       if (!evt->event_handler)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       evt->event_handler(evt);
+       return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Broadcast the event to the cpus, which are set in the mask (mangled).
  */