Hmm. this somehow did not make it to akpm and lkml when I posted it a
week ago.
Fix the issue that the timer sometimes will not fire if the scheduled
time has already expired. Plus some simplifications and style changes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.11/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/drivers/char/mmtimer.c 2005-03-01 23:38:13.000000000
-0800
+++ linux-2.6.11/drivers/char/mmtimer.c 2005-03-09 09:48:40.000000000 -0800
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@ static struct file_operations mmtimer_fo
};
/*
- * Comparators and their associated info. Shub has
- * three comparison registers.
- */
-
-/*
* We only have comparison registers RTC1-4 currently available per
* node. RTC0 is used by SAL.
*/
@@ -174,14 +169,10 @@ static void inline mmtimer_setup_int_2(u
* This function must be called with interrupts disabled and preemption off
* in order to insure that the setup succeeds in a deterministic time frame.
* It will check if the interrupt setup succeeded.
- * mmtimer_setup will return the cycles that we were too late if the
- * initialization failed.
*/
static int inline mmtimer_setup(int comparator, unsigned long expires)
{
- long diff;
-
switch (comparator) {
case 0:
mmtimer_setup_int_0(expires);
@@ -194,17 +185,14 @@ static int inline mmtimer_setup(int comp
break;
}
/* We might've missed our expiration time */
- diff = rtc_time() - expires;
- if (diff > 0) {
- if (mmtimer_int_pending(comparator)) {
- /* We'll get an interrupt for this once we're done */
- return 0;
- }
- /* Looks like we missed it */
- return diff;
- }
+ if (rtc_time() < expires)
+ return 1;
- return 0;
+ /*
+ * If an interrupt is already pending then its okay
+ * if not then we failed
+ */
+ return mmtimer_int_pending(comparator);
}
static int inline mmtimer_disable_int(long nasid, int comparator)
@@ -430,7 +418,7 @@ static int inline reschedule_periodic_ti
if (n > 20)
return 1;
- } while (mmtimer_setup(x->i, t->it_timer.expires));
+ } while (!mmtimer_setup(x->i, t->it_timer.expires));
return 0;
}
@@ -594,9 +582,15 @@ static int sgi_timer_set(struct k_itimer
if (flags & TIMER_ABSTIME) {
struct timespec n;
+ unsigned long now;
getnstimeofday(&n);
- when -= timespec_to_ns(n);
+ now = timespec_to_ns(n);
+ if (when > now)
+ when -= now;
+ else
+ /* Fire the timer immediately */
+ when = 0;
}
/*
@@ -644,7 +638,7 @@ retry:
timr->it_timer.expires = when;
if (period == 0) {
- if (mmtimer_setup(i, when)) {
+ if (!mmtimer_setup(i, when)) {
mmtimer_disable_int(-1, i);
posix_timer_event(timr, 0);
timr->it_timer.expires = 0;
-
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