[tip:timers/core] alpha: Change do_timer() to xtime_update()

[tip-bot for Torben Hohn]

Commit-ID:  1340f3e0b29b745a33f431455c3a37f48197bc81
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1340f3e0b29b745a33f431455c3a37f48197bc81
Author:     Torben Hohn <torbenh@xxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:59:15 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:55:43 +0100

alpha: Change do_timer() to xtime_update()

xtime_update() takes the xtime_lock itself.

timer_interrupt() is only called on the boot cpu. See do_entInt(). So
"state" in timer_interrupt does not require protection by xtime_lock.

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@xxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx
LKML-Reference: <20110127145915.23248.20919.stgit@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/time.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
index c1f3e7c..a58e84f 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
 
 /*
  * timer_interrupt() needs to keep up the real-time clock,
- * as well as call the "do_timer()" routine every clocktick
+ * as well as call the "xtime_update()" routine every clocktick
  */
 irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
 {
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
 	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
 #endif
 
-	write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
-
 	/*
 	 * Calculate how many ticks have passed since the last update,
 	 * including any previous partial leftover.  Save any resulting
@@ -187,9 +185,7 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
 	nticks = delta >> FIX_SHIFT;
 
 	if (nticks)
-		do_timer(nticks);
-
-	write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
+		xtime_update(nticks);
 
 	if (test_irq_work_pending()) {
 		clear_irq_work_pending();
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