[PATCH 3/4] tickless idle cpus: sysctl support

[PATCH 3/4] tickless idle cpus: sysctl support

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

During initial phase, it is useful to have sysctl control to turn on/off
tickless idle CPU feature at run time. Patch below, against
2.6.17-rc1-mm1, provides that support for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>

---

 linux-2.6.17-rc1-root/kernel/sysctl.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl kernel/sysctl.c
--- linux-2.6.17-rc1/kernel/sysctl.c~sysctl	2006-04-07 11:29:28.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-root/kernel/sysctl.c	2006-04-07 11:29:28.000000000 +0530
@@ -554,6 +554,16 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &minolduid,
 		.extra2		= &maxolduid,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
+	{
+		.ctl_name       = KERN_HZ_TIMER,
+		.procname       = "hz_timer",
+		.data           = &sysctl_hz_timer,
+		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
+		.mode           = 0644,
+		.proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
+	},
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_S390
 #ifdef CONFIG_MATHEMU
 	{
@@ -565,16 +575,6 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
 	},
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
-	{
-		.ctl_name       = KERN_HZ_TIMER,
-		.procname       = "hz_timer",
-		.data           = &sysctl_hz_timer,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
-		.mode           = 0644,
-		.proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
-	},
-#endif
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= KERN_S390_USER_DEBUG_LOGGING,
 		.procname	= "userprocess_debug",

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Regards,
vatsa