From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process context. This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Alessandro Zummo Cc: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/time/ntp.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/time/ntp.c~ntp-let-update_persistent_clock-sleep kernel/time/ntp.c --- a/kernel/time/ntp.c~ntp-let-update_persistent_clock-sleep +++ a/kernel/time/ntp.c @@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ #include #include -#include #include #include #include #include #include #include +#include #include /* @@ -218,11 +218,11 @@ void second_overflow(void) /* Disable the cmos update - used by virtualization and embedded */ int no_sync_cmos_clock __read_mostly; -static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned long dummy); +static void sync_cmos_clock(struct work_struct *work); -static DEFINE_TIMER(sync_cmos_timer, sync_cmos_clock, 0, 0); +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(sync_cmos_work, sync_cmos_clock); -static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned long dummy) +static void sync_cmos_clock(struct work_struct *work) { struct timespec now, next; int fail = 1; @@ -258,13 +258,13 @@ static void sync_cmos_clock(unsigned lon next.tv_sec++; next.tv_nsec -= NSEC_PER_SEC; } - mod_timer(&sync_cmos_timer, jiffies + timespec_to_jiffies(&next)); + schedule_delayed_work(&sync_cmos_work, timespec_to_jiffies(&next)); } static void notify_cmos_timer(void) { if (!no_sync_cmos_clock) - mod_timer(&sync_cmos_timer, jiffies + 1); + schedule_delayed_work(&sync_cmos_work, 0); } #else _