timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers

* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch creates a new framework for identifying cpu-pinned timers
and hrtimers.

This framework is needed because pinned timers are expected to fire on
the same CPU on which they are queued. So it is essential to identify
these and not migrate them, in case there are any.

For regular timers, the currently existing add_timer_on() can be used
queue pinned timers and subsequently mod_timer_pinned() can be used
to modify the 'expires' field.

For hrtimers, new modes HRTIMER_ABS_PINNED and HRTIMER_REL_PINNED are
added to queue cpu-pinned hrtimer.

[ tglx: use .._PINNED mode argument instead of creating tons of new
functions ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/hrtimer.h b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
index 0d2f7c8a33d6..7400900de94a 100644
--- a/include/linux/hrtimer.h
+++ b/include/linux/hrtimer.h
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ struct hrtimer_cpu_base;
  * Mode arguments of xxx_hrtimer functions:
  */
 enum hrtimer_mode {
-        HRTIMER_MODE_ABS,       /* Time value is absolute */
-        HRTIMER_MODE_REL,       /* Time value is relative to now */
+        HRTIMER_MODE_ABS = 0x0,         /* Time value is absolute */
+        HRTIMER_MODE_REL = 0x1,         /* Time value is relative to now */
+        HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED = 0x02,     /* Timer is bound to CPU */
+        HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED = 0x02,
+        HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED = 0x03,
 };
 
 /*