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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 8601f0db1261..b69692250af4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD
         default y
         depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
 
+# Architecture can handle broadcast in a driver-agnostic way
+config ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST
+        bool
+
 # Clockevents broadcasting infrastructure
 config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
         bool