clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:05:22 +0000 (17:05 +0000)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:15:36 +0000 (22:15 +0100)
commit12ad10004645d38356b14d1fbba379c523a61916
treefe8b798176191c681c6b2fa1c81aa55dc98568dc
parent12572dbb53638c6e454ef831c8fee7de3df24389
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function

Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.

This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.

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/1358183124-28461-3-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>
include/linux/clockchips.h
kernel/time/Kconfig
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c