clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver

Currently the broadcast mechanism used for timers is abstracted by a
function pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental
mechanism for broadcast is architecture-specific, this ties each
clock_event_device driver to a single architecture, even where the
driver is otherwise generic.

This patch adds a standard path for the receipt of timer broadcasts, so
drivers and/or architecture backends need not manage redundant lists of
timers for the purpose of routing broadcast timer ticks.

[tglx: Made the implementation depend on the config switch as well ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index f113755695e2..7cc81c57eb31 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -125,6 +125,23 @@ int tick_device_uses_broadcast(struct clock_event_device *dev, int cpu)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+int tick_receive_broadcast(void)
+{
+	struct tick_device *td = this_cpu_ptr(&tick_cpu_device);
+	struct clock_event_device *evt = td->evtdev;
+
+	if (!evt)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	if (!evt->event_handler)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	evt->event_handler(evt);
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Broadcast the event to the cpus, which are set in the mask (mangled).
  */