Re: [PATCH 1/2] hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle morethen 2 clockids

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, John Stultz wrote:
> @@ -53,11 +53,10 @@
>  /*
>   * The timer bases:
>   *
> - * Note: If we want to add new timer bases, we have to skip the two
> - * clock ids captured by the cpu-timers. We do this by holding empty
> - * entries rather than doing math adjustment of the clock ids.
> - * This ensures that we capture erroneous accesses to these clock ids
> - * rather than moving them into the range of valid clock id's.
> + * There are more clockids then hrtimer bases. Thus, we index

s/then/than/

> + * into the timer bases by the hrtimer_base_type enum. When trying
> + * to reach a base using a clockid, hrtimer_clockid_to_base()
> + * is used to convert from clockid to the proper hrtimer_base_type.
>   */
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base, hrtimer_bases) =
>  {
> @@ -77,6 +76,24 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base, hrtimer_bases) =
>  	}
>  };
>  
> +static int hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[MAX_CLOCKS];
> +
> +static inline int hrtimer_clockid_to_base(clockid_t clock_id)
> +{
> +	int ret = hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[clock_id];
> +
> +	if(ret == -1) {
> +		WARN_ON(1);
> +		/* We just hit an invalid clock base,
> +		 * but returning -1 isn't safe, so
> +		 * return the _REALTIME base
> +		 */

  How can this happen ?

> +		return HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME; 
> +	}
> +	return ret;
> +}

Thanks,

	tglx
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