1. 05 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop · 7c1e7689
      Venkatesh Pallipadi 提交于
      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: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7c1e7689
  2. 15 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      clockevents: introduce force broadcast notifier · 1595f452
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The 64bit SMP bootup is slightly different to the 32bit one. It enables
      the boot CPU local APIC timer before all CPUs are brought up. Some AMD C1E
      systems have the C1E feature flag only set in the secondary CPU. Due to
      the early enable of the boot CPU local APIC timer the APIC timer is
      registered as a fully functional device. When we detect the wreckage during
      the bringup of the secondary CPU, we need to force the boot CPU into
      broadcast mode. 
      
      Add a new notifier reason and implement the force broadcast in the clock
      events layer.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      1595f452
  3. 13 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] clockevents: add core functionality · d316c57f
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      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: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo 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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d316c57f