[PATCH V2 0/2] time/cpuidle: Support in tick broadcast framework inabsence of external clock device

From: Preeti U Murthy
Date: Fri Jan 24 2014 - 02:01:11 EST


This earlier version of this patchset can be found here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/12/687. This version has been based on the
discussion in http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=399516.

This patchset provides the hooks that the architectures without an external
clock device and deep idle states where the local timers stop can make use of.

Presently we are in need of this support on certain implementations of
PowerPC. This patchset has been used on PowerPC for testing with

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Preeti U Murthy (1):
time: Change the return type of clockevents_notify() to integer

Thomas Gleixner (1):
tick/cpuidle: Initialize hrtimer mode of broadcast


include/linux/clockchips.h | 15 ++++-
kernel/time/Makefile | 2 -
kernel/time/clockevents.c | 8 ++-
kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++-
kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 6 +-
6 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c

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