linux.git/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c, branch v4.11

clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t

2016-12-25T10:04:12+00:00

There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: John Stultz

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha/time: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

2015-08-10T09:40:58+00:00

Migrate alpha driver to the new 'set-state' interface provided by
clockevents core, the earlier 'set-mode' interface is marked obsolete
now.

This also enables us to implement callbacks for new states of clockevent
devices, for example: ONESHOT_STOPPED.

rtc clockevent device wasn't doing anything in set-mode and so its
set-state callbacks aren't implemented.

Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano

alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var

2014-08-26T17:45:53+00:00

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of
them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x).  This calculates
the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor
based on an offset.

Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current
processors percpu area.  __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when
writing data or on the right side of an assignment.

__get_cpu_var() is defined as :

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var)))

__get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store
and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on
other platforms) to avoid the address calculation.

this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a
percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu
variables.

This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address
calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that
use the offset.  Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers
are used when code is generated.

At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so
the macro is removed too.

The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations
are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86
arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e.  using a global
register that may be set to the per cpu base.

Transformations done to __get_cpu_var()

1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y);

2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]);
	int *x = __get_cpu_var(y);

    Converts to

	int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y);

3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu
variable.

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	int x = __get_cpu_var(y)

   Converts to

	int x = __this_cpu_read(y);

4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y);
	struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y);

   Converts to

	memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x));

5. Assignment to a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y)
	__get_cpu_var(y) = x;

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_write(y, x);

6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y);
	__get_cpu_var(y)++

   Converts to

	__this_cpu_inc(y)

CC: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Acked-by: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

alpha: Use qemu+cserve provided high-res clock and alarm.

2013-11-17T00:33:21+00:00

QEMU provides a high-resolution timer and alarm; use this for
a clock source and clock event source when available.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

alpha: Switch to GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS

2013-11-17T00:33:19+00:00

This allows us to get rid of some hacky code for SMP.  Get rid of
some cycle counter hackery that's now handled by generic code via
clocksource + clock_event_device objects.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

alpha: Enable the rpcc clocksource for single processor

2013-11-17T00:33:18+00:00

Don't depend on SMP, just check the number of processors online.
This allows a single distribution kernel to use the clocksource
when run on a single processor machine.  Do depend on whether or
not we're using WTINT.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

alpha: Reorganize rtc handling

2013-11-17T00:33:16+00:00

Discontinue use of GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE; rely on the RTC subsystem.

The marvel platform requires that the rtc only be touched from the
boot cpu.  This had been partially implemented with hooks for
get/set_rtc_time, but read/update_persistent_clock were not handled.
Move the hooks from the machine_vec to a special rtc_class_ops struct.

We had read_persistent_clock managing the epoch against which the
rtc hw is based, but this didn't apply to get_rtc_time or set_rtc_time.
This resulted in incorrect values when hwclock(8) gets involved.

Allow the epoch to be set from the kernel command-line, overriding
the autodetection, which is doomed to fail in 2020.  Further, by
implementing the rtc ioctl function, we can expose this epoch to
userland.

Elide the alarm functions that RTC_DRV_CMOS implements.  This was
highly questionable on Alpha, since the interrupt is used by the
system timer.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

alpha: Allow HZ to be configured

2013-11-17T00:33:13+00:00

With the 1024Hz default, we spend 50% of QEMU emulation
processing timer interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson

alpha: Use __builtin_alpha_rpcc

2013-07-19T20:54:25+00:00

As introduced in gcc 3.2.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson