Russell King wrote:
>
> This patch appears not to be in 2.5.43, but applies cleanly.
>
> On some ARM platforms, CLOCK_TICK_RATE is not a constant (it is specified
> at boot time), which means that TICK_USEC/TICK_NSEC is not constant.
> We therefore can not initialise static variables with these definitions;
> they must be done at run time.
I must be missing something here. Why can't both be done?
That is, leave timer.c alone and add code to the arch time
init to correct the values?
-g
>
> kernel/timer.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
>
> diff -ur orig/kernel/timer.c linux/kernel/timer.c
> --- orig/kernel/timer.c Wed Oct 16 09:17:13 2002
> +++ linux/kernel/timer.c Wed Oct 16 09:15:00 2002
> @@ -376,8 +376,8 @@
> /*
> * Timekeeping variables
> */
> -unsigned long tick_usec = TICK_USEC; /* ACTHZ period (usec) */
> -unsigned long tick_nsec = TICK_NSEC(TICK_USEC); /* USER_HZ period (nsec) */
> +unsigned long tick_usec; /* ACTHZ period (usec) */
> +unsigned long tick_nsec; /* USER_HZ period (nsec) */
>
> /* The current time */
> struct timespec xtime __attribute__ ((aligned (16)));
> @@ -1069,6 +1069,9 @@
> void __init init_timers(void)
> {
> int i, j;
> +
> + tick_usec = TICK_USEC;
> + tick_nsec = TICK_NSEC(TICK_USEC);
>
> for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
> tvec_base_t *base;
>
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