[PATCH] Extend next_timer_interrupt() to use a reference jiffie

For CONFIG_NO_HZ we need to calculate the next timer wheel event based on a
given jiffie value.  Extend the existing code to allow the extra 'now'
argument.  Provide a compability function for the existing implementations to
call the function with now == jiffies.  (This also solves the racyness of the
original code vs.  jiffies changing during the iteration.)

No functional changes to existing users of this infrastructure.

[ remove WARN_ON() that triggered on s390, by Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> ]
[ made new helper static, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> ]
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, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
index fb5edaaf0ebd..bd0af324fd48 100644
--- a/include/linux/timer.h
+++ b/include/linux/timer.h
@@ -61,7 +61,17 @@ extern int del_timer(struct timer_list * timer);
 extern int __mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 extern int mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer, unsigned long expires);
 
+/*
+ * Return when the next timer-wheel timeout occurs (in absolute jiffies),
+ * locks the timer base:
+ */
 extern unsigned long next_timer_interrupt(void);
+/*
+ * Return when the next timer-wheel timeout occurs (in absolute jiffies),
+ * locks the timer base and does the comparison against the given
+ * jiffie.
+ */
+extern unsigned long get_next_timer_interrupt(unsigned long now);
 
 /**
  * add_timer - start a timer