linux-stable/arch
Vineet Gupta d8005e6b95 ARC: Timers/counters/delay management
ARC700 includes 2 in-core 32bit timers TIMER0 and TIMER1.
Both have exactly same capabilies.

* programmable to count from TIMER<n>_CNT to TIMER<n>_LIMIT
* for count 0 and LIMIT ~1, provides a free-running counter by
    auto-wrapping when limit is reached.
* optionally interrupt when LIMIT is reached (oneshot event semantics)
* rearming the interrupt provides periodic semantics
* run at CPU clk

ARC Linux uses TIMER0 for clockevent (periodic/oneshot) and TIMER1 for
clocksource (free-running clock).

Newer cores provide RTSC insn which gives a 64bit cpu clk snapshot hence
is more apt for clocksource when available.

SMP poses a bit of challenge for global timekeeping clocksource /
sched_clock() backend:
 -TIMER1 based local clocks are out-of-sync hence can't be used
  (thus we default to jiffies based cs as well as sched_clock() one/both
  of which platform can override with it's specific hardware assist)
 -RTSC is only allowed in SMP if it's cross-core-sync (Kconfig glue
  ensures that) and thus usable for both requirements.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-02-11 20:00:39 +05:30
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alpha ALPHA: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
arc ARC: Timers/counters/delay management 2013-02-11 20:00:39 +05:30
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-01-24 12:44:57 -08:00
arm64 arm64: elf: fix core dumping to match what glibc expects 2013-01-22 17:50:59 +00:00
avr32 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
blackfin ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
c6x These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
cris ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
frv ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
h8300 These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
hexagon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
ia64 ia64: kill thread_matches(), unexport ptrace_check_attach() 2013-01-20 12:26:05 -08:00
m32r ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2013-01-23 13:31:15 -08:00
microblaze Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2013-01-07 07:39:32 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-01-07 07:50:41 -08:00
mn10300 arch/mn10300/Kconfig: select CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
openrisc ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
parisc parisc: sigaltstack doesn't round ss.ss_sp as required 2013-01-07 23:06:27 +01:00
powerpc KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf 2013-01-18 00:40:49 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-01-17 08:56:30 -08:00
score ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
sh sh: ecovec: add sample amixer settings 2013-01-16 18:30:44 +09:00
sparc sparc: remove __devinit, __devexit annotations 2013-01-12 15:28:45 -08:00
tile ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
unicore32 ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00
x86 perf/urgent fixes: 2013-01-22 14:32:07 -08:00
xtensa These are a few cleanups for asm-generic: 2012-12-21 16:39:08 -08:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00