[PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [20/25] x86_64: get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 06:57:58 EST



From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK is used by x86_64 arch . This arch needs to place a
read only copy of xtime_lock into vsyscall page. This read only copy is
named __xtime_lock, and xtime_lock is defined in
arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S as an alias. So the declaration of
xtime_lock in kernel/timer.c was guarded by ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK define,
defined to true on x86_64.

We can get same result with _attribute__((weak)) in the declaration. linker
should do the job.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h | 5 -----
include/linux/time.h | 2 +-
kernel/timer.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ extern struct vxtime_data vxtime;
extern int vgetcpu_mode;
extern struct timezone sys_tz;
extern int sysctl_vsyscall;
-extern seqlock_t xtime_lock;
-
-extern int sysctl_vsyscall;
-
-#define ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK 1

#endif /* __KERNEL__ */

Index: linux/include/linux/time.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/time.h
+++ linux/include/linux/time.h
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static inline struct timespec timespec_s

extern struct timespec xtime;
extern struct timespec wall_to_monotonic;
-extern seqlock_t xtime_lock;
+extern seqlock_t xtime_lock __attribute__((weak));

void timekeeping_init(void);

Index: linux/kernel/timer.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/timer.c
+++ linux/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1162,11 +1162,9 @@ static inline void calc_load(unsigned lo
* This read-write spinlock protects us from races in SMP while
* playing with xtime and avenrun.
*/
-#ifndef ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK
-__cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock);
+__attribute__((weak)) __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(xtime_lock);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(xtime_lock);
-#endif

/*
* This function runs timers and the timer-tq in bottom half context.
-
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