ARM: 7124/1: smp: Add a localtimer handler callable from C code

In order to be able to handle localtimer directly from C code instead of
assembly code, introduce handle_local_timer(), which is modeled after
handle_IRQ().

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 2e49f1883fe9..0949007d09a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -480,6 +480,11 @@ static void ipi_timer(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCAL_TIMERS
 asmlinkage void __exception_irq_entry do_local_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
+        handle_local_timer(regs);
+}
+
+void handle_local_timer(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
         struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
         int cpu = smp_processor_id();