clocksource: Move watchdog downgrade to a work queue thread

Move the downgrade of an unstable clocksource from the timer interrupt
context into the process context of a work queue thread. This is
needed to be able to do the clocksource switch with stop_machine.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134809.354926067@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Martin Schwidefsky
2009-08-14 15:47:25 +02:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent fb63a0ebe6
commit c55c87c892
2 changed files with 40 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern struct clocksource *clock; /* current clocksource */
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_WATCHDOG 0x10
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES 0x20
#define CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE 0x40
/* simplify initialization of mask field */
#define CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(bits) (cycle_t)((bits) < 64 ? ((1ULL<<(bits))-1) : -1)