[PATCH] tick-management: core functionality

With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The tick-management code is the first user of the clockevents layer.  It takes
clock event devices from the clock events core and uses them to provide the
periodic tick.

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, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e5c0a4e22706
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*  linux/include/linux/tick.h
+ *
+ *  This file contains the structure definitions for tick related functions
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_TICK_H
+#define _LINUX_TICK_H
+
+#include <linux/clockchips.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+
+enum tick_device_mode {
+        TICKDEV_MODE_PERIODIC,
+        TICKDEV_MODE_ONESHOT,
+};
+
+struct tick_device {
+        struct clock_event_device *evtdev;
+        enum tick_device_mode mode;
+};
+
+extern void __init tick_init(void);
+
+#else
+
+static inline void tick_init(void) { }
+
+#endif
+
+#endif