From 03e13cf5ee60584fe0c831682c67212effb7fca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:31:50 +0000 Subject: clockevents: Implement unbind functionality Provide a sysfs interface to allow unbinding of clockevent devices. The device is unbound if it is unused or if there is a replacement device available. Unbinding of broadcast devices is not supported as we don't want to foster that nonsense. If no replacement device is available the unbind returns -EBUSY. Unbind is available from the kernel and through sysfs, which is necessary to drop the module refcount. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Magnus Damm Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.499216659@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-internal.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/tick-internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h index 06bfc8802dfb..be1690eaecff 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-internal.h +++ b/kernel/time/tick-internal.h @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ extern seqlock_t jiffies_lock; #define TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE -1 #define TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT -2 +#define CS_NAME_LEN 32 + DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device); extern ktime_t tick_next_period; extern ktime_t tick_period; @@ -23,9 +25,14 @@ extern void tick_handover_do_timer(int *cpup); extern void tick_shutdown(unsigned int *cpup); extern void tick_suspend(void); extern void tick_resume(void); +extern bool tick_check_replacement(struct clock_event_device *curdev, + struct clock_event_device *newdev); +extern void tick_install_replacement(struct clock_event_device *dev); extern void clockevents_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *dev); +extern size_t sysfs_get_uname(const char *buf, char *dst, size_t cnt); + /* * NO_HZ / high resolution timer shared code */ -- cgit v1.2.3