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authorTorben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>2011-01-27 15:59:10 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-01-31 14:55:43 +0100
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parent79ecaf0d15344d78904becf0f25de3fc9b49d430 (diff)
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time: Provide xtime_update()
xtime_update() takes xtime_lock write locked and calls do_timer(). Provided to replace the do_timer() calls in the architecture code. Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20110127145910.23248.21379.stgit@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 8da35d1..02c13a3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -969,3 +969,16 @@ void get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset(struct timespec *xtim, struct timespec *wtom
*wtom = wall_to_monotonic;
} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
}
+
+/**
+ * xtime_update() - advances the timekeeping infrastructure
+ * @ticks: number of ticks, that have elapsed since the last call.
+ *
+ * Must be called with interrupts disabled.
+ */
+void xtime_update(unsigned long ticks)
+{
+ write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
+ do_timer(ticks);
+ write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
+}
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