Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-26 Thread Dimitri Sivanich
Note that the mmtimer struct can probably be removed from the k_itimer struct in include/linux/posix-timers.h, just for completeness. --- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h +++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h @@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ struct k_itimer { } real; struct

Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-26 Thread Dimitri Sivanich
Note that the mmtimer struct can probably be removed from the k_itimer struct in include/linux/posix-timers.h, just for completeness. --- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h +++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h @@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ struct k_itimer { } real; struct

Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-23 Thread Dimitri Sivanich
Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Cc: + Mike > > > Hi folks, > > > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > > altic mmtimer

Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-23 Thread Dimitri Sivanich
Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Cc: + Mike > > > Hi folks, > > > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > > altic mmtimer

Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Cc: + Mike > Hi folks, > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of > it because the

Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

2017-05-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Cc: + Mike > Hi folks, > > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of > it because the