linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/19] i386: Convert to clock event devices

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Message-Id: <1163153459.3138.647.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:10:58 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/19] i386: Convert to clock event devices

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:38 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> - * Local timer interrupt handler. It does both profiling and
> - * process statistics/rescheduling.
> + * The guts of the apic timer interrupt
>   */
> -inline void smp_local_timer_interrupt(void)
> +fastcall void local_apic_timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)

please don't add more "fastcall"; CONFIG_REGPARM makes that the default
anyway



> +void __init setup_pit_timer(void)
> +{
> +	pit_clockevent.mult = div_sc(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, NSEC_PER_SEC, 32);
> +	pit_clockevent.max_delta_ns =
> +		clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFF, &pit_clockevent);
> +	pit_clockevent.min_delta_ns =
> +		clockevent_delta2ns(0xF, &pit_clockevent);
> +	register_global_clockevent(&pit_clockevent);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_TIMER
> +	global_clock_event = &pit_clockevent;
> +#endif
> +}

ok this ifdef looks really really weird to me. Why does PIT code depend
on CONFIG_HPET ? HPET is mostly a runtime property!


other than that Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

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