[PATCH] linux-2.5.40_timer-changes_A3 (1/3 - infrastructure)

From: john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 01:09:39 EST


Linus, All,

        The i386 time.c code is turning into a mess. We've got multiple
functions that do the same thing, only with different hardware, all
surrounded #ifdefs and even more difficult to follow #ifndefs. George
Anzinger is introducing a new ACPIpm time source, I'm going to attempt
to add the cyclone counter as a time source, and in the future there
will be HPET to deal with. These will not go in cleanly together as
things are now.
        
        Inspired by suggestions from Alan, this collection of patches tries to
clean up time.c by breaking out the PIT and TSC specific parts into
their own files. Additionally the patch creates an abstract interface to
use these existing time soruces, as well as make it easier to add future
time sources.
        
        It introduces "struct timer_ops" which gives the time code a clear
interface to use these different time sources. It also allows for
clearer conditional compilation of these various time sources.

        This first patch (part 1 of 3) provides the infrastructure needed via
the timer_ops structure, as well as the select_timer() function for
choosing the best available timer.
        
Please apply.

thanks
-john

diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c
--- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c Wed Oct 2 22:35:57 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm/timer.h>
+
+/* list of externed timers */
+/* eg: extern struct timer_opts timer_XXX*/;
+
+/* list of timers, ordered by preference */
+struct timer_opts* timers[] = {
+ /* eg: &timer_XXX */
+};
+
+#define NR_TIMERS (sizeof(timers)/sizeof(timers[0]))
+
+/* iterates through the list of timers, returning the first
+ * one that initializes successfully.
+ */
+struct timer_opts* select_timer(void)
+{
+ int i;
+ /* find most preferred working timer */
+ for(i=0; i < NR_TIMERS; i++)
+ if(timers[i]->init())
+ return timers[i];
+ panic("select_timer: Cannot find a suitable timer\n");
+ return 0;
+}
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/timer.h b/include/asm-i386/timer.h
--- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ b/include/asm-i386/timer.h Wed Oct 2 22:35:57 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef _ASMi386_TIMER_H
+#define _ASMi386_TIMER_H
+
+struct timer_opts{
+ /* probes and initializes timer. returns 1 on sucess, 0 on failure */
+ int (*init)(void);
+ /* called by the timer interrupt */
+ void (*mark_offset)(void);
+ /* called by gettimeofday. returns # ms since the last timer interrupt */
+ unsigned long (*get_offset)(void);
+};
+
+struct timer_opts* select_timer(void);
+#endif

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