From: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:04:23 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: clock events: allow replacement of broadcast timer
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1397^2~6
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a93232dab0a07074bcc5291a0f1f39919916f31;p=linux-2.6

clock events: allow replacement of broadcast timer

Change the broadcast timer, if a timer with higher rating becomes available.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index acf15b49e5..298bc7c6f0 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ static void tick_broadcast_start_periodic(struct clock_event_device *bc)
  */
 int tick_check_broadcast_device(struct clock_event_device *dev)
 {
-	if (tick_broadcast_device.evtdev ||
-	    (dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP))
+	if ((tick_broadcast_device.evtdev &&
+	     tick_broadcast_device.evtdev->rating >= dev->rating) ||
+	     (dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP))
 		return 0;
 
 	clockevents_exchange_device(NULL, dev);
@@ -513,11 +514,9 @@ static void tick_broadcast_clear_oneshot(int cpu)
  */
 void tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot(struct clock_event_device *bc)
 {
-	if (bc->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT) {
-		bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast;
-		clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT);
-		bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
-	}
+	bc->event_handler = tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast;
+	clockevents_set_mode(bc, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT);
+	bc->next_event.tv64 = KTIME_MAX;
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 77a21abc87..3f3ae39078 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static int tick_check_new_device(struct clock_event_device *newdev)
 
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	if (!cpu_isset(cpu, newdev->cpumask))
-		goto out;
+		goto out_bc;
 
 	td = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_device, cpu);
 	curdev = td->evtdev;
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ out_bc:
 	 */
 	if (tick_check_broadcast_device(newdev))
 		ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
-out:
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_device_lock, flags);
 
 	return ret;