This patch allows the GIC clockevent device for a CPU to be configured
by another CPU. This makes GIC clockevent devices suitable for use as
the tick broadcast device, where formerly the GIC timer local to the
configuring CPU would have been configured incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Although the GIC counter will continue when a core is in a low power
state and it will still trigger interrupts, the core will be incapable
of servicing those interrupts rendering them useless.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
commit 3747069b25e419f6b51395f48127e9812abc3596 upstream.
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
and are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
the arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
related content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get
rid of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless.
Here, we remove all the MIPS __cpuinit from C code and __CPUINIT
from asm files. MIPS is interesting in this respect, because there
are also uasm users hiding behind their own renamed versions of the
__cpuinit macros.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in Paul's followup fix.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5494/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5495/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5509/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add new clockevent driver that uses the counter present on the MIPS
Global Interrupt Controller.
Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham <Raghu.Gandham@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
