time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock

Now that timekeeping is protected by its own locks, rename
the xtime_lock to jifffies_lock to better describe what it
protects.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index e424970..4c7de02 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@
 
 static struct timekeeper timekeeper;
 
-/*
- * This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while
- * playing with xtime.
- */
-__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock);
-
 /* flag for if timekeeping is suspended */
 int __read_mostly timekeeping_suspended;
 
@@ -1299,9 +1293,7 @@ struct timespec get_monotonic_coarse(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * The 64-bit jiffies value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
- * without sampling the sequence number in xtime_lock.
- * jiffies is defined in the linker script...
+ * Must hold jiffies_lock
  */
 void do_timer(unsigned long ticks)
 {
@@ -1389,7 +1381,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_monotonic_offset);
  */
 void xtime_update(unsigned long ticks)
 {
-	write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
+	write_seqlock(&jiffies_lock);
 	do_timer(ticks);
-	write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
+	write_sequnlock(&jiffies_lock);
 }