linux-kernel - Re: make arch code use xtime_update() instead of do

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Date:	Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:14:24 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Torben Hohn <torbenh@....de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com,
	hch@...radead.org, yong.zhang0@...il.com
Subject: Re: make arch code use xtime_update() instead of do_timer() 

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Torben Hohn wrote:
 
> move do_timer() into kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> and provide a version which properly takes the xtime_lock()
> 
> finally makes do_timer() and xtime_lock into a header file
> private to kernel/time
> 
> xtime_lock is still used by kernel/hrtimer.c and kernel/time.c
> i am not sure, whether the small header file is the right
> thing though.

get_jiffies_64() and the jiffies export should move into
kernel/time/jiffies.c

The hrtimer bits should be replaced by a function in timekeeping.c
which collects xtime and wall_to_monotonic.

Thanks,

	tglx
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