From d1748302f70be7469809809283fe164156a34231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:29:42 +0200 Subject: clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an attribute of the clockevents device. In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: john stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-common.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-common.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c index 119528de8235..da6c9ecad4e4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ void tick_handle_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev) */ next = ktime_add(dev->next_event, tick_period); for (;;) { - if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, ktime_get())) + if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, false)) return; /* * Have to be careful here. If we're in oneshot mode, @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void tick_setup_periodic(struct clock_event_device *dev, int broadcast) clockevents_set_mode(dev, CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT); for (;;) { - if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, ktime_get())) + if (!clockevents_program_event(dev, next, false)) return; next = ktime_add(next, tick_period); } -- cgit v1.2.3