[PATCH] tick-management: core functionality

With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The tick-management code is the first user of the clockevents layer.  It takes
clock event devices from the clock events core and uses them to provide the
periodic tick.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner 2007-02-16 01:28:01 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d316c57ff6
commit 906568c9c6
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/* linux/include/linux/tick.h
*
* This file contains the structure definitions for tick related functions
*
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_TICK_H
#define _LINUX_TICK_H
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
enum tick_device_mode {
TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC,
TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT,
};
struct tick_device {
struct clock_event_device *evtdev;
enum tick_device_mode mode;
};
extern void __init tick_init(void);
#else
static inline void tick_init(void) { }
#endif
#endif