ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep

This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process
context.  This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may
be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index c6921aa1a42a..450a45cb01c1 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
-#include <linux/timer.h>
 #include <linux/timex.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/math64.h>
 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <asm/timex.h>
 
 /*
@@ -218,11 +218,11 @@ void second_overflow(void)
 /* Disable the cmos update - used by virtualization and embedded */
 int no_sync_cmos_clock  __read_mostly;
 
-static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned long dummy);
+static void sync_cmos_clock(struct work_struct *work);
 
-static DEFINE_TIMER(sync_cmos_timer, sync_cmos_clock, 0, 0);
+static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(sync_cmos_work, sync_cmos_clock);
 
-static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned long dummy)
+static void sync_cmos_clock(struct work_struct *work)
 {
         struct timespec now, next;
         int fail = 1;
@@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned long dummy)
                 next.tv_sec++;
                 next.tv_nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
         }
-        mod_timer(&sync_cmos_timer, jiffies + timespec_to_jiffies(&next));
+        schedule_delayed_work(&sync_cmos_work, timespec_to_jiffies(&next));
 }
 
 static void notify_cmos_timer(void)
 {
         if (!no_sync_cmos_clock)
-                mod_timer(&sync_cmos_timer, jiffies + 1);
+                schedule_delayed_work(&sync_cmos_work, 0);
 }
 
 #else