linux-stable/kernel/time
Thomas Gleixner 7eaeb34305 clocksource: Provide unbind interface in sysfs
With the module refcount held for the current clocksource there is no
way to unload the module. 

Provide a sysfs interface which allows to unbind the clocksource. One
could argue that the clocksource override could be (ab)used to do so,
but the clocksource override cannot be used from the kernel itself,
while an unbind function can be used to programmatically check whether
a clocksource can be shutdown or not.

The unbind functionality uses the new skip current feature of
clocksource_select and verifies that a fallback clocksource has been
installed. If the clocksource which should be unbound is the current
clocksource and no fallback can be found, unbind returns -EBUSY.

This does not support the unbinding of a clocksource which is used as
the watchdog clocksource. No point in fostering crappy hardware.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143435.964218245@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-16 11:09:15 +02:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue 2012-09-24 12:38:03 -04:00
clockevents.c clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use 2013-01-14 10:12:37 -08:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Provide unbind interface in sysfs 2013-05-16 11:09:15 +02:00
jiffies.c time: Kill xtime_lock, replacing it with jiffies_lock 2012-11-13 14:08:23 -05:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
Makefile time: remove the timecompare code. 2012-11-01 11:41:35 -04:00
ntp.c ntp: Remove ntp_lock, using the timekeeping locks to protect ntp state 2013-04-04 13:18:17 -07:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Rework do_adjtimex to take timespec and tai arguments 2013-04-04 13:18:15 -07:00
posix-clock.c kernel: Fix files explicitly needing EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure 2011-10-31 19:30:05 -04:00
tick-broadcast.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
tick-common.c Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-05 13:23:27 -07:00
tick-internal.h Merge branch 'fortglx/3.10/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core 2013-04-03 12:27:29 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable 2011-09-08 11:10:56 +02:00
tick-sched.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:05:17 -07:00
timeconv.c time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use 2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
timekeeping.c clocksource: Add module refcount 2013-05-16 11:09:14 +02:00
timer_list.c timer_list: Convert timer list to be a proper seq_file 2013-04-17 20:51:02 +02:00
timer_stats.c locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw 2011-09-13 11:12:00 +02:00