alpha: Change do_timer() to xtime_update()

xtime_update() takes the xtime_lock itself.

timer_interrupt() is only called on the boot cpu. See do_entInt(). So
"state" in timer_interrupt does not require protection by xtime_lock.

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20110127145915.23248.20919.stgit@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
index c1f3e7cb82a4..a58e84f1a63b 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
 
 /*
  * timer_interrupt() needs to keep up the real-time clock,
- * as well as call the "do_timer()" routine every clocktick
+ * as well as call the "xtime_update()" routine every clocktick
  */
 irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
 {
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
         profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
 #endif
 
-        write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
-
         /*
          * Calculate how many ticks have passed since the last update,
          * including any previous partial leftover.  Save any resulting
@@ -187,9 +185,7 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
         nticks = delta >> FIX_SHIFT;
 
         if (nticks)
-                do_timer(nticks);
-
-        write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
+                xtime_update(nticks);
 
         if (test_irq_work_pending()) {
                 clear_irq_work_pending();