clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
The automatic increase of the min_delta_ns of a clockevents device
should be done in the clockevents code as the minimum delay is an
attribute of the clockevents device.
In addition not all architectures want the automatic adjustment, on a
massively virtualized system it can happen that the programming of a
clock event fails several times in a row because the virtual cpu has
been rescheduled quickly enough. In that case the minimum delay will
erroneously be increased with no way back. The new config symbol
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIN_ADJUST is used to enable the automatic
adjustment. The config option is selected only for x86.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110823133142.494157493@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
index d6733e2..39bb050 100644
--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
enum clock_event_mode mode);
extern int clockevents_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev,
- ktime_t expires, ktime_t now);
+ ktime_t expires, bool force);
extern void clockevents_handle_noop(struct clock_event_device *dev);