[PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer support

Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the
clockevents / tick-management framework.  This provides accurate timers for
all hrtimer subsystem users.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 52bf1edd9df5..abd575cfc759 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -609,6 +609,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem
                         size on bigger boxes.
 
+        highres=        [KNL] Enable/disable high resolution timer mode.
+                        Valid parameters: "on", "off"
+                        Default: "on"
+
         hisax=          [HW,ISDN]
                         See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.