[PATCH] Allow early access to the power management timer

Allow early access to the power management timer by exposing the verified read
function and providing a helper function which checks the pmtmr_ioport
variable and returns either the pm timer readout or 0 in case the pm timer is
not available.

Create a new header file and replace also the ifdef'ed extern definition in
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c

This is a preperatory patch for the rework of the local apic timer
calibration.

No functional changes.

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>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index e94aff6888ca..56818cf5bc40 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
+#include <linux/acpi_pmtmr.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -676,10 +677,6 @@ static int __init acpi_parse_hpet(struct acpi_table_header *table)
 #define acpi_parse_hpet NULL
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER
-extern u32 pmtmr_ioport;
-#endif
-
 static int __init acpi_parse_fadt(struct acpi_table_header *table)
 {