* sttus of the Altix mmtimer driver @ 2017-05-23 7:08 Christoph Hellwig 2017-05-23 15:27 ` status " Thomas Gleixner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2017-05-23 7:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dimitri Sivanich, Nate Zimmer, Russ Anderson Cc: Thomas Gleixner, linux-kernel Hi folks, what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver 2017-05-23 7:08 sttus of the Altix mmtimer driver Christoph Hellwig @ 2017-05-23 15:27 ` Thomas Gleixner 2017-05-24 0:36 ` Dimitri Sivanich 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2017-05-23 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dimitri Sivanich, Nate Zimmer, Russ Anderson, LKML, Mike Travis On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Cc: + Mike > Hi folks, > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier. > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver 2017-05-23 15:27 ` status " Thomas Gleixner @ 2017-05-24 0:36 ` Dimitri Sivanich 2017-05-26 13:05 ` Dimitri Sivanich 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Dimitri Sivanich @ 2017-05-24 0:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Christoph Hellwig, Dimitri Sivanich, Nate Zimmer, Russ Anderson, LKML, Mike Travis Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Cc: + Mike > > > Hi folks, > > > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that > > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of > > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros > > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier. > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver 2017-05-24 0:36 ` Dimitri Sivanich @ 2017-05-26 13:05 ` Dimitri Sivanich 2017-05-27 11:04 ` [tip:timers/core] posix-timers: Remove mmtimer leftovers tip-bot for Dimitri Sivanich 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Dimitri Sivanich @ 2017-05-26 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Thomas Gleixner, Christoph Hellwig, Dimitri Sivanich, Nate Zimmer, Russ Anderson, LKML, Mike Travis Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Note that the mmtimer struct can probably be removed from the k_itimer struct in include/linux/posix-timers.h, just for completeness. --- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h +++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h @@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ struct k_itimer { } real; struct cpu_timer_list cpu; struct { - unsigned int clock; - unsigned int node; - unsigned long incr; - unsigned long expires; - } mmtimer; - struct { struct alarm alarmtimer; ktime_t interval; } alarm; On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 07:36:01PM -0500, Dimitri Sivanich wrote: > Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed. > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Cc: + Mike > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > > > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that > > > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of > > > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros > > > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier. > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* [tip:timers/core] posix-timers: Remove mmtimer leftovers 2017-05-26 13:05 ` Dimitri Sivanich @ 2017-05-27 11:04 ` tip-bot for Dimitri Sivanich 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: tip-bot for Dimitri Sivanich @ 2017-05-27 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-tip-commits Cc: sivanich, rja, hpa, sivanich, linux-kernel, hch, mingo, mike.travis, tglx, nzimmer Commit-ID: f822798e3ced63427d57d128ee8d118126455f84 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f822798e3ced63427d57d128ee8d118126455f84 Author: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com> AuthorDate: Fri, 26 May 2017 23:30:52 +0200 Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CommitDate: Sat, 27 May 2017 12:58:46 +0200 posix-timers: Remove mmtimer leftovers After removing mmtimer, the mmtimer struct can be removed from the k_itimer struct. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526130534.GE30788@hpe.com --- include/linux/posix-timers.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/posix-timers.h b/include/linux/posix-timers.h index b313ef2..34e893a 100644 --- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h +++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h @@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ struct k_itimer { } real; struct cpu_timer_list cpu; struct { - unsigned int clock; - unsigned int node; - unsigned long incr; - unsigned long expires; - } mmtimer; - struct { struct alarm alarmtimer; ktime_t interval; } alarm; ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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