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clocksource: add unregister function to disable unusable clocksources
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On x86 the PIT might become an unusable clocksource. Add an unregister
function to provide a possibilty to remove the PIT from the list of
available clock sources.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jan 30, 2008
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c
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#include <asm/delay.h>
#include <asm/i8253.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/hpet.h>

DEFINE_SPINLOCK(i8253_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock);
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/clocksource.h
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Expand Up @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static inline void clocksource_calculate_interval(struct clocksource *c,

/* used to install a new clocksource */
extern int clocksource_register(struct clocksource*);
extern void clocksource_unregister(struct clocksource*);
extern struct clocksource* clocksource_get_next(void);
extern void clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating);
extern void clocksource_resume(void);
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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions kernel/time/clocksource.c
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Expand Up @@ -337,6 +337,21 @@ void clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clocksource_lock, flags);
}

/**
* clocksource_unregister - remove a registered clocksource
*/
void clocksource_unregister(struct clocksource *cs)
{
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&clocksource_lock, flags);
list_del(&cs->list);
if (clocksource_override == cs)
clocksource_override = NULL;
next_clocksource = select_clocksource();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clocksource_lock, flags);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/**
* sysfs_show_current_clocksources - sysfs interface for current clocksource
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