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[PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure

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This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure.  A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter.  This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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john stultz
2006-06-26 00:25:05 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ade1a29e16
commit 734efb467b
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
MTD MTD support is enabled.
NET Appropriate network support is enabled.
NUMA NUMA support is enabled.
GENERIC_TIME The generic timeofday code is enabled.
NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
OSS OSS sound support is enabled.
PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled.
@@ -341,10 +342,11 @@ running once the system is up.
Value can be changed at runtime via
/selinux/checkreqprot.
clock= [BUGS=IA-32,HW] gettimeofday timesource override.
Forces specified timesource (if avaliable) to be used
when calculating gettimeofday(). If specicified
timesource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT.
clock= [BUGS=IA-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
Forces specified clocksource (if avaliable) to be used
when calculating gettimeofday(). If specified
clocksource is not avalible, it defaults to PIT.
Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | pmtmr }
disable_8254_timer
@@ -1617,6 +1619,10 @@ running once the system is up.
time Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line
clocksource= [GENERIC_TIME] Override the default clocksource
Override the default clocksource and use the clocksource
with the name specified.
tipar.timeout= [HW,PPT]
Set communications timeout in tenths of a second
(default 15).