[PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer support
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the
clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate timers for
all hrtimer subsystem users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 9ec54eb..f663511 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -13,3 +13,13 @@
This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will
only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is
busy and when the system is idle.
+
+config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
+ bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
+ depends on GENERIC_TIME && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
+ select TICK_ONESHOT
+ help
+ This option enables high resolution timer support. If your
+ hardware is not capable then this option only increases
+ the size of the kernel image.
+