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Subject[PATCH] linux-2.5.39_timer-changes_A3 (1/3 - infrastructure)
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Linus, Dave, all,

This is part 1 of 3 of my timer-changes patch. Nothing new in this
release, but I broke it up considerably to try to aid people who might
attempt to read over it.

As I've said before, this collection of patches breaks up the i386
time.c using a timer_ops structure to abstract away the different time
sources used (such as TSC, PIT, and in the future HPET, cyclone,
ACPIpm).

Part 1 is just the infrastructure required (struct timer_ops,
select_timer()), and changes no existing code.

Please apply.

thanks
-john

diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c
--- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timer.c Mon Sep 30 19:14:54 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm/timer.h>
+
+/* list of externed timers */
+/* eg: extern struct timer_opts timer_XXX*/;
+
+/* list of timers, ordered by preference */
+struct timer_opts* timers[] = {
+ /* eg: &timer_XXX */
+};
+
+#define NR_TIMERS (sizeof(timers)/sizeof(timers[0]))
+
+/* iterates through the list of timers, returning the first
+ * one that initializes successfully.
+ */
+struct timer_opts* select_timer(void)
+{
+ int i;
+ /* find most preferred working timer */
+ for(i=0; i < NR_TIMERS; i++)
+ if(timers[i]->init())
+ return timers[i];
+ panic("select_timer: Cannot find a suitable timer\n");
+ return 0;
+}
diff -Nru a/include/asm-i386/timer.h b/include/asm-i386/timer.h
--- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ b/include/asm-i386/timer.h Mon Sep 30 19:14:54 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef _ASMi386_TIMER_H
+#define _ASMi386_TIMER_H
+
+struct timer_opts{
+ /* probes and initializes timer. returns 1 on sucess, 0 on failure */
+ int (*init)(void);
+ /* called by the timer interrupt */
+ void (*mark_offset)(void);
+ /* called by gettimeofday. returns # ms since the last timer interrupt */
+ unsigned long (*get_offset)(void);
+};
+
+struct timer_opts* select_timer(void);
+#endif
-
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