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Paul E. McKenney
c25197841e documentation: Update NO_HZ_FULL interaction with POSIX timers
POSIX timers are no longer starved on adaptive-ticks CPUs.  Instead, they
prevent affected CPUs from entering adaptive-ticks mode.  This commit
therefore updates the NO_HZ.txt documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 11:57:29 -08:00
Peter Foley
c5e2a7e012 Documentation: update .gitignore files
Add some missing files to .gitignore.
Push Documentation/.gitignore down into subdirectories.

Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-26 11:02:59 +02:00
Peter Foley
df68a01014 Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files
Change the Documentation makefiles from obj-m to subdir-y
to avoid generating unnecessary built-in.o files since nothing
in Documentation/ is ever linked in to vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
Linus Walleij
7806f60e1d clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
This adds some documentation about clock sources, clock events,
the weak sched_clock() function and delay timers that answers
questions that repeatedly arise on the mailing lists.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2014-07-23 15:07:13 -07:00
Michael Kerrisk
2779ac167b timer_stats/doc: Fix /proc/timer_stats documentation
Documentation/timers/timer_stats.txt claims:

 "The readout of /proc/timer_stats automatically disables sampling. The sampled
  information is kept until a new sample period is started. This allows multiple
  readouts."

Some simple testing shows that reading from /proc/timer_stats
does not disable sampling. Looking back over past source code,
it appears that it never did.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53636FB6.9060407@gmail.com
[ Small tidyup of the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-04 20:46:32 +02:00
Henrik Austad
3cf8ca1c25 Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all.  Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.

New 00-INDEX
 - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006

Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
 - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a0 ("dmatest: run test via
   debugfs")
 - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d6 ("percpu: add
   documentation on this_cpu operations")
 - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a3710 ("mutex: Add
   support for wound/wait style locks")
 - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
   cache")
 - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb404
   ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
   kthreads")
 - phy.txt was added by commit ff76496347 ("drivers: phy: add generic
   PHY framework")
 - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc03 ("null_blk:
   documentation")
 - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea3076 ("Add
   Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
 - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c ("Add a generic
   associative array implementation.")
 - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
 - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e8
   ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
 - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77 ("ARM: Add
   interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
 - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a0524 ("ARM:
   7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
 - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cf ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
   (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
 - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e ("ARM: mcpm: Add
   baremetal voting mutexes")
 - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
   4b60779d5e ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
   gptimers API")
 - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc68 ("dt:
   Linux DT usage model documentation")
 - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f428 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
   format configuration API")
 - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a0498071 ("video, sm501: add
   edid and commandline support")
 - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864af ("fbdev: move udlfb out
   of staging.")
 - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48
   ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
 - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
   8a4c6e19cf ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
   configuration")
 - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413e ("ide: add
   warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
 - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc
   ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
 - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f ("LEDS: add
   BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
 - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cd ("leds: add
   oneshot trigger")
 - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e7 ("leds:
   add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
 - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
 - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
   40839129f7, c4e84bde1d, 5a4faa8737
 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b ("i40evf: add
   driver to kernel build system")
 - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36 ("xfrm: Add
   file to document IPsec corner case")
 - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
   3cd7920a2b ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
 - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c39
   ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
 - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e159
   ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
 - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce
   ethernet teaming device")
 - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d ("vxlan:
   virtual extensible lan")
 - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a0 ("PM: Introduce
   core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev.  17)")
 - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56
   ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
 - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa ("rcu:
   Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
 - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
 - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport
   support - basic control")
 - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9 ("sched: Add
   documentation for bandwidth control")
 - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f356 ("[SCSI] advansys:
   Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bd ("[SCSI] bfa: add
   readme file")
 - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10ea ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
   driver documentation")
 - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464eb ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
   cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
 - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
   hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
 - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
   ca77329fb7 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
 - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621de ("[SCSI] osd:
   Documentation for OSD library")
 - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb11
   ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
 - serial/driver was part of the initial repo
 - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122e ("n_gsm: add a
   documentation")
 - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
   Documentation/ sources")
 - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d ("KVM: s390:
   diagnose call documentation")
 - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2cc ("mm:
   dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
   page")
 - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2 ("w1: Add
   1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
 - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6 ("hdq:
   documentation for OMAP HDQ")
 - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a8 ("x86, doc:
   Documentation for early microcode loading")
 - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade4788 ("x86/doc:
   mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
 - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b5 ("x86-64: Document
   some of entry_64.S")
 - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874 ("x86: PAT
   documentation")

Moved files
 - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
   commit 37b8304642 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
   the source code")
 - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
   commit 4172fe2f8a ("EFI stub documentation updates")
 - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
   efcfed9bad ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
 - commit 5616c23ad9 ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
   Doc/x86/i386"):
   * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
   * x86/boot.txt
   * x86/zero_page.txt
 - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df1
   ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")

Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
 - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aa ("memory.txt: remove
   stray information")
 - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfc ("Documentation:
   gpiolib: document new interface")
 - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26
   ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
 - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp:
   remove broken driver")
 - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f6693 ("[S390] remove tape
   block docu")
 - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2 ("mm: documentation:
   remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
 - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e ("acer-wmi:
   Delete out-of-date documentation")

Typos/misc issues
 - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
   030d794bf4 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
   authentication.")
 - commit b88cf73d92 ("net: add missing entries to
   Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
   * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
   * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
 - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f7 ("w1: add
   1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
 - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a40
   ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	[rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
Henrik Austad
ebd46f016a doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
- timers-howto was added by commit 0fcb8081 (Documentation: Add
  timers/timers-howto.txt)
- NO_HZ was added by commit 0c87f9b5 (nohz_full: Add documentation.)

Cc: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <haustad@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-10-27 21:55:50 +00:00
Paul E. McKenney
8bdf7a252b nohz_full: Add testing information to documentation
This commit adds information about testing nohz_full, and also emphasizes
the fact that you need a multi-CPU system to get any benefit from nohz_full.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:06:55 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ce5f4fc861 nohz_full: Document additional restrictions
This commit calls out the potential for slowing the tick even when there
are multiple runnable processes per CPU,  It also points out that current
mainlined version keeps the tick going on at least one CPU even when all
CPUs are otherwise idle.  Finally, it notes the need for a 1-HZ tick in
order to calculate CPU load, maintain sched average, compute CFS entity
vruntime, compute avenrun, and carry out load balancing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-06-10 13:42:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
295fde89be nohz_full: Update based on Sedat Dilek review
Make it more clear that there are three options, and give hints as
to which of the three is most likely to be useful in different
situations.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-06-10 13:42:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0c87f9b5ca nohz_full: Add documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Olivier Baetz <olivier.baetz@novasparks.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-04-27 16:41:43 -07:00
Paul Bolle
395cf9691d doc: fix broken references
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.

Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer
049262940e doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-17 10:52:02 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-König
b595076a18 tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
aaaddfe0b3 Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: add supporting info for hpet_example
$./hpet_example info /dev/hpet
-hpet: executing info
hpet_info: hi_irqfreq 0x0 hi_flags 0x0 hi_hpet 0 hi_timer 2

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <venki@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
Patrick Pannuto
0fcb80818b Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt
This file seeks to explain the nuances in various delays;
many driver writers are not necessarily familiar with the
various kernel timers, their shortfalls, and quirks. When
faced with

ndelay, udelay, mdelay, usleep_range, msleep, and msleep_interrubtible

the question "How do I just wait 1 ms for my hardware to
latch?" has the non-intuitive "best" answer:
	usleep_range(1000,1500)

This patch is followed by a series of checkpatch additions
that seek to help kernel hackers pick the best delay.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: apw@canonical.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1280786467-26999-3-git-send-email-ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-08-04 11:00:45 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
0a6531ebea Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: only build on X86
We should only build hpet_example on x86[-64], where it is implemented.
It can cause build errors on other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-01 10:05:19 -07:00
Andrea Gelmini
4164fcc2f9 Documentation/timers/hpet_example: drop duplicate header files
Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: fcntl.h is included more than once.
Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: signal.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-24 07:30:56 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e61863099f Documentation/timers/: split txt and source files
Documentation/timers/hpet.txt:
Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/timers/ directory in
their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files.
This should help to prevent bitrot.

This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need
to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and
to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible.

Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at
all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if
they should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
Amerigo Wang
1039c6ba67 fix URL in hpet.txt
That URL is out of date. Update it.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-09 09:40:54 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
David Brownell
64a76f667d hpet: /dev/hpet - fixes and cleanup
Minor /dev/hpet updates and bugfixes:

  * Remove dead code, mostly remnants of an incomplete/unusable
    kernel interface ... noted when addressing "sparse" warnings:
      + hpet_unregister() and a routine it calls
      + hpet_task and all references, including hpet_task_lock
      + hpet_data.hd_flags (and HPET_DATA_PLATFORM)

  * Correct and improve boot message:
      + displays *counter* (shared between comparators) bit width,
        not *timer* bit widths (which are often mixed)
      + relabel "timers" as "comparators"; this is less confusing,
        they are not independent like normal timers are (sigh)
      + display MHz not Hz; it's never less than 10 MHz.

  * Tighten and correct the userspace interface code
      + don't accidentally program comparators in 64-bit mode using
        32-bit values ... always force comparators into 32-bit mode
      + provide the correct bit definition flagging comparators with
        periodic capability ... the ABI is unchanged

  * Update Documentation/hpet.txt
      + be more correct and current
      + expand description a bit
      + don't mention that now-gone kernel interface

Plus, add a FIXME comment for something that could cause big trouble
on systems with more capable HPETs than at least Intel seems to ship.

It seems that few folk use this userspace interface; it's not very
usable given the general lack of HPET IRQ routing.  I'm told that
the only real point of it any more is to mmap for fast timestamps;
IMO that's handled better through the gettimeofday() vsyscall.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-31 18:45:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
85e9ca333d Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
d91958815d Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a300bec952 documentation: move hpet.txt to timers/ subdirectory
Move hpet.txt to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: tglx <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-24 01:32:41 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
3833eecc18 Documentation: move timer related documentation to a single place
We have two directories with timer related information in
Documentation/: hrtimers/ and hrtimer/. timer_stats are not restricted
to hrtimers. Move all those files into Documentation/timers where we
can pile up other timer related docs as well.

Pointed-out-by: Randy Dunlap <randy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 12:22:31 +02:00