[patch 13/48] clockevents: Remove redundant CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 11:36:47 EST


The only real usecase for this is the hrtimer based broadcast device.
No point in using two different feature flags for this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/clockchips.h | 1 -
kernel/time/clockevents.c | 4 ++--
kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ enum clock_event_state {
*/
# define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC 0x000001
# define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT 0x000002
-# define CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME 0x000004

/*
* x86(64) specific (mis)features:
--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ int clockevents_program_event(struct clo
WARN_ONCE(!clockevent_state_oneshot(dev), "Current state: %d\n",
clockevent_get_state(dev));

- /* Shortcut for clockevent devices that can deal with ktime. */
- if (dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME)
+ /* ktime_t based reprogramming for the broadcast hrtimer device */
+ if (unlikely(dev->features & CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_HRTIMER))
return dev->set_next_ktime(expires, dev);

delta = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(expires, ktime_get()));
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ static struct clock_event_device ce_broa
.set_state_shutdown = bc_shutdown,
.set_next_ktime = bc_set_next,
.features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT |
- CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME |
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_HRTIMER,
.rating = 0,
.bound_on = -1,