[PATCH 01/13] timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Oct 12 09:14:27 EDT 2020


On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 5:47 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> All platforms that currently do not use generic clockevents roughly call
> the same set of functions in their timer interrupts: xtime_update(),
> update_process_times() and profile_tick(), sometimes in a different
> sequence.
>
> Add a helper function that performs all three of them, to make the
> callers more uniform and simplify the interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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