[PATCH] clocksource: replace is_continuous by a flag field

Using a flag filed allows to encode more than one information into a variable.
Preparatory patch for the generic clocksource verification.

[mingo@elte.hu: convert vmitime.c to the new clocksource flag]
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>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index a99b2a6e6a07..3be8da8fed7e 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies = {
         .mask           = 0xffffffff, /*32bits*/
         .mult           = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
         .shift          = JIFFIES_SHIFT,
-        .is_continuous  = 0, /* tick based, not free running */
 };
 
 static int __init init_jiffies_clocksource(void)
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 8f4bf1e6a3ed..1144ff2c2ea3 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ int timekeeping_is_continuous(void)
         do {
                 seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
 
-                ret = clock->is_continuous;
+                ret = clock->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS;
 
         } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));