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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-07-31 17:44:12 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2012-06-11 20:07:17 +0200
commitf5d411c91ede162240f34e05a233f2759412988e (patch)
tree7e6181e575eb19087e9f19dd1a7ba20d25e6dd8b /include/linux/tick.h
parent2ac0d98fd624ae50f5e6ae9c800977a9dbbfcde6 (diff)
nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick
Now that idle and nohz logics are going to be independant each others, ts->idle_tick becomes too much a biased name to describe the field that saves the last scheduled tick on top of which we re-calculate the next tick to schedule when the timer is restarted. We want to reuse this even to stop the tick outside idle cases. So let's rename it to some more generic name: ts->last_tick. This changes a bit the timer list stat export so we need to increase its version. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tick.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tick.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
index ab8be90b5cc..f37fceb69b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/tick.h
+++ b/include/linux/tick.h
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ enum tick_nohz_mode {
* struct tick_sched - sched tick emulation and no idle tick control/stats
* @sched_timer: hrtimer to schedule the periodic tick in high
* resolution mode
- * @idle_tick: Store the last idle tick expiry time when the tick
- * timer is modified for idle sleeps. This is necessary
+ * @last_tick: Store the last tick expiry time when the tick
+ * timer is modified for nohz sleeps. This is necessary
* to resume the tick timer operation in the timeline
- * when the CPU returns from idle
+ * when the CPU returns from nohz sleep.
* @tick_stopped: Indicator that the idle tick has been stopped
* @idle_jiffies: jiffies at the entry to idle for idle time accounting
* @idle_calls: Total number of idle calls
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ struct tick_sched {
struct hrtimer sched_timer;
unsigned long check_clocks;
enum tick_nohz_mode nohz_mode;
- ktime_t idle_tick;
+ ktime_t last_tick;
int inidle;
int tick_stopped;
unsigned long idle_jiffies;