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Dan Carpenter
7ad12566dc pps: class_create() returns an ERR_PTR, not NULL
class_create() never returns NULLs only ERR_PTRs.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:43 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
79bc57463b pps gpio client: add missing dependency
Add "depends on GENERIC_HARDIRQS" to avoid compile breakage on s390:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `pps_gpio_remove':
linux-next/drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c:189: undefined reference to `free_irq'

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
James Nuss
161520451d pps: new client driver using GPIO
This client driver allows you to use a GPIO pin as a source for PPS
signals.  Platform data [1] are used to specify the GPIO pin number,
label, assert event edge type, and whether clear events are captured.

This driver is based on the work by Ricardo Martins who submitted an
initial implementation [2] of a PPS IRQ client driver to the linuxpps
mailing-list on Dec 3 2010.

[1] include/linux/pps-gpio.h
[2] http://ml.enneenne.com/pipermail/linuxpps/2010-December/004155.html

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast of void*]
Signed-off-by: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
James Nuss
437c534186 pps: default echo function
A default echo function has been provided so it is no longer an error when
you specify PPS_ECHOASSERT or PPS_ECHOCLEAR without an explicit echo
function.  This allows some code re-use and also makes it easier to write
client drivers since the default echo function does not normally need to
change.

Signed-off-by: James Nuss <jamesnuss@nanometrics.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: Ricardo Martins <rasm@fe.up.pt>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Alexander Gordeev
77d1c8eb8a pps: remove unreachable code
Remove code enabled only when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is turned on because it is
not used in the vanilla kernel.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
matt mooney
26a082dc53 pps: change to new flag variable
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-03-17 14:05:35 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
95b90afec3 pps: make pps_gen_parport depend on BROKEN
This driver causes hard lockups, when the active clock soure is jiffies.

The reason is that it loops with interrupts disabled waiting for a
timestamp to be reached by polling getnstimeofday().  Though with a
jiffies clocksource, when that code runs on the same CPU which is
responsible for updating jiffies, then we loop in circles for ever
simply because the timer interrupt cannot update jiffies.  So both UP
and SMP can be affected.

There is no easy fix for that problem so make it depend on BROKEN for
now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-04 17:53:38 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
99b0d365e5 pps: initialize ts_real properly
Initialize ts_real.flags to fix compiler warning about possible
uninitialized use of this field.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25 15:07:37 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
4f542e3dd9 pps: claim parallel port exclusively
Both pps_parport and pps_gen_parport are written in a way that they
can't share a port with any other driver.  This can result in locking up
the process that loads modules or even the whole kernel if the modules
are compiled in.  Use PARPORT_FLAG_EXCL to indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:50:00 +10:00
Rodolfo Giometti
a783ac4453 pps ktimer: remove noisy message
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:49:59 +10:00
Alexander Gordeev
563558b2c7 pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator
Add PPS signal generator which utilizes STROBE pin of a parallel port to
send PPS signals.  It uses parport abstraction layer and hrtimers to
precisely control the signal.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
46b402a0e5 pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator
Add PPS signal generator which utilizes STROBE pin of a parallel port to
send PPS signals.  It uses parport abstraction layer and hrtimers to
precisely control the signal.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
a10203c691 pps: add parallel port PPS client
Add parallel port PPS client.  It uses a standard method for capturing
timestamps for assert edge transitions: getting a timestamp soon after an
interrupt has happened.

This is not a very precise source of time information due to interrupt
handling delays.  However, timestamps for clear edge transitions are much
more precise because the interrupt handler continuously polls hardware
port until the transition is done.

Hardware port operations require only about 1us so the maximum error
should not exceed this value.  This was my primary goal when developing
this client.

Clear edge capture could be disabled using clear_wait parameter.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
717c033669 pps: add kernel consumer support
Add an optional feature of PPSAPI, kernel consumer support, which uses the
added hardpps() function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
025b40abe7 ntp: add hardpps implementation
This commit adds hardpps() implementation based upon the original one from
the NTPv4 reference kernel code from David Mills.  However, it is highly
optimized towards very fast syncronization and maximum stickness to PPS
signal.  The typical error is less then a microsecond.

To make it sync faster I had to throw away exponential phase filter so
that the full phase offset is corrected immediately.  Then I also had to
throw away median phase filter because it gives a bigger error itself if
used without exponential filter.

Maybe we will find an appropriate filtering scheme in the future but it's
not necessary if the signal quality is ok.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
12f9b1f9c1 pps: timestamp is always passed to dcd_change()
Remove the code that gatheres timestamp in pps_tty_dcd_change() in case
passed ts parameter is NULL because it never happens in the current code.
Fix comments as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
818b9eefe7 pps: simplify conditions a bit
Bitwise conjunction is distributive so we can simplify some conditions.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
29f347c9fa pps: use BUG_ON for kernel API safety checks
This way less overhead is involved when running production kernel.  If you
want to debug a pps client module please define DEBUG to enable the
checks.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
2a5cd6e2fb pps: make idr lock a mutex and protect idr_pre_get
Now pps_idr_lock is never used in interrupt context so we can replace
spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq with plain spin_lock/spin_unlock. But
there is also a potential race condition when someone can steal an id
which was allocated by idr_pre_get before it is used. So convert spin
lock to mutex and protect the whole id generation process.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
083e58666f pps: move idr stuff to pps.c
Since now idr is only used to manage char device id's and not used in
kernel API anymore it should be moved to pps.c.  This also makes it
possible to release id only at actual device freeing so nobody can
register a pps device with the same id while our device is not freed yet.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:20 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
7f7cce7410 pps: convert printk/pr_* to dev_*
Since we now have direct pointers to struct pps_device everywhere it's
easy to use dev_* functions to print messages instead of plain printks.
Where dev_* cannot be used printks are converted to pr_*.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
5e196d34a7 pps: access pps device by direct pointer
Using device index as a pointer needs some unnecessary work to be done
every time the pointer is needed (in irq handler for example).  Using a
direct pointer is much more easy (and safe as well).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
6f4229b511 pps: unify timestamp gathering
Add a helper function to gather timestamps.  This way clients don't have
to duplicate it.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
3003d55b59 pps: fix race in PPS_FETCH handler
There was a race in PPS_FETCH ioctl handler when several processes want to
obtain PPS data simultaneously using sleeping PPS_FETCH.  They all sleep
most of the time in the system call.

With the old approach when the first process waiting on the pps queue is
waken up it makes new system call right away and zeroes pps->go.  So other
processes continue to sleep.  This is a clear race condition because of
the global 'go' variable.

With the new approach pps->last_ev holds some value increasing at each PPS
event.  PPS_FETCH ioctl handler saves current value to the local variable
at the very beginning so it can safely check that there is a new event by
just comparing both variables.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
86d921f9ec pps: declare variables where they are used in switch
Move variable declarations where they are used in pps_cdev_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev
7a21a3cc0b pps: trivial fixes
Here are some very trivial fixes combined:

- add macro definitions to protect header file from including several times

- remove declaration for an unexistent array

- fix typos

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from  to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Rodolfo Giometti
a0880df0cc pps: serial clients support
Adds support, by using the PPS line discipline, for the PPS sources
connected with the CD (Carrier Detect) pin of a serial port.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cast size warnings]
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
Rodolfo Giometti
697fb85fcf pps: LinuxPPS clients support
Each PPS source can be registered/deregistered into the system by using
special modules called "clients".  They simply define the PPS sources'
attributes and implement the time signal registration mechanism.

This patch adds a special directory for such clients and adds a dummy
client that can be useful to test system integrity on real systems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:43 -08:00
Rodolfo Giometti
276b282e90 pps: events reporting fix up
PPS events must be recorded according to PPS's mode settings.

If a process asks for (i.e.) capture-assert events only, when the PPS
client calls the pps_event() function to save the current PPS event, we
should verify the event type and then discard unwanted ones.

Also, without this patch userland processes waiting for a specific PPS
event (assert or clear but not both) may be awakened at wrong time.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Tested-by: William S. Brasher <billb958@door.net>
Tested-by: Reg Clemens <clemens@dwf.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-12 07:26:01 -08:00
Rodolfo Giometti
cbf83cc5a2 pps: locking scheme fix up for PPS_GETPARAMS
Userland programs may read/write PPS parameters at same time and these
operations may corrupt PPS data.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Tested-by: Reg Clemens <clemens@dwf.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-12 07:26:00 -08:00
Joonwoo Park
054b2b13cc pps: fix incorrect verdict check
Fix incorrect verdict check and returns error if device_create failed,
otherwise driver triggers kernel oops.

Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park<joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
Rodolfo Giometti
eae9d2ba0c LinuxPPS: core support
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".

PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.

Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.

To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch.  It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal.  The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00