clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function

Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.

This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358183124-28461-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
index e1089aa7816d..66346521cb65 100644
--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ extern void clockevents_suspend(void);
 extern void clockevents_resume(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
+extern void tick_broadcast(const struct cpumask *mask);
+#else
+#define tick_broadcast  NULL
+#endif
 extern int tick_receive_broadcast(void);
 #endif