[patch 05/38] treewide: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE

Thomas Gleixner
2026-04-10T12:19:00Z

This has been scheduled for removal more than a decade ago and the comments
related to it have been dutifully ignored. The last dependencies are gone.

Remove it along with various now empty asm/timex.h files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h | 4 ----
arch/arc/include/asm/timex.h | 15 ---------------
arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/hexagon/include/asm/timex.h | 3 ---
arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h | 15 ---------------
arch/microblaze/include/asm/timex.h | 13 -------------
arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h | 8 --------
arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h | 3 ---
arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h | 2 --
arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h | 2 --
arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h | 2 --
arch/sh/include/asm/timex.h | 24 ------------------------
arch/sparc/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +-
arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_32.h | 14 --------------
arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h | 2 --
arch/um/include/asm/timex.h | 9 ---------
arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h | 3 ---
17 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
#ifndef _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H
#define _ASMALPHA_TIMEX_H

-/* With only one or two oddballs, we use the RTC as the ticker, selecting
- the 32.768kHz reference clock, which nicely divides down to our HZ. */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 32768
-
/*
* Standard way to access the cycle counter.
* Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
--- a/arch/arc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2004, 2007-2010, 2011-2012 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
- */
-
-#ifndef _ASM_ARC_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASM_ARC_TIMEX_H
-
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 80000000 /* slated to be removed */
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-/* XXX: get_cycles() to be implemented with RTSC insn */
-
-#endif /* _ASM_ARC_TIMEX_H */
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap1/Kconfig
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ config OMAP_32K_TIMER
currently only available for OMAP16XX, 24XX, 34XX, OMAP4/5 and DRA7XX.

On OMAP2PLUS this value is only used for CONFIG_HZ and
- CLOCK_TICK_RATE compile time calculation.
+ timer frequency compile time calculation.
The actual timer selection is done in the board file
through the (DT_)MACHINE_START structure.

--- a/arch/hexagon/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/hexagon/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
#include <asm/hexagon_vm.h>

-/* Using TCX0 as our clock. CLOCK_TICK_RATE scheduled to be removed. */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 19200
-
#define ARCH_HAS_READ_CURRENT_TIMER

static inline int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_val)
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -7,21 +7,6 @@
#ifndef _ASMm68K_TIMEX_H
#define _ASMm68K_TIMEX_H

-#ifdef CONFIG_COLDFIRE
-/*
- * CLOCK_TICK_RATE should give the underlying frequency of the tick timer
- * to make ntp work best. For Coldfires, that's the main clock.
- */
-#include <asm/coldfire.h>
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE MCF_CLK
-#else
-/*
- * This default CLOCK_TICK_RATE is probably wrong for many 68k boards
- * Users of those boards will need to check and modify accordingly
- */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */
-#endif
-
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;

static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
--- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2006 Atmark Techno, Inc.
- */
-
-#ifndef _ASM_MICROBLAZE_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASM_MICROBLAZE_TIMEX_H
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1000 /* Timer input freq. */
-
-#endif /* _ASM_TIMEX_H */
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -19,14 +19,6 @@
#include <asm/cpu-type.h>

/*
- * This is the clock rate of the i8253 PIT. A MIPS system may not have
- * a PIT by the symbol is used all over the kernel including some APIs.
- * So keeping it defined to the number for the PIT is the only sane thing
- * for now.
- */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193182
-
-/*
* Standard way to access the cycle counter.
* Currently only used on SMP for scheduling.
*
--- a/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/openrisc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
}
#define get_cycles get_cycles

-/* This isn't really used any more */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1000
-
#define ARCH_HAS_READ_CURRENT_TIMER

#endif
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@

#include <asm/special_insns.h>

-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */
-
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;

static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/vdso/timebase.h>

-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1024000 /* Underlying HZ */
-
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;

static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ static inline void local_tick_enable(uns
set_clock_comparator(get_lowcore()->clock_comparator);
}

-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */
-
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;

static __always_inline unsigned long get_tod_clock(void)
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm-sh/timex.h
- *
- * sh architecture timex specifications
- */
-#ifndef __ASM_SH_TIMEX_H
-#define __ASM_SH_TIMEX_H
-
-/*
- * Only parts using the legacy CPG code for their clock framework
- * implementation need to define their own Pclk value. If provided, this
- * can be used for accurately setting CLOCK_TICK_RATE, otherwise we
- * simply fall back on the i8253 PIT value.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SH_PCLK_FREQ
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (CONFIG_SH_PCLK_FREQ / 4) /* Underlying HZ */
-#else
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180
-#endif
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-#endif /* __ASM_SH_TIMEX_H */
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
#if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)
#include <asm/timex_64.h>
#else
-#include <asm/timex_32.h>
+#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
#endif
#endif
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_32.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/*
- * linux/include/asm/timex.h
- *
- * sparc architecture timex specifications
- */
-#ifndef _ASMsparc_TIMEX_H
-#define _ASMsparc_TIMEX_H
-
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/timex_64.h
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@

#include <asm/timer.h>

-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 /* Underlying HZ */
-
/* Getting on the cycle counter on sparc64. */
typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
#define get_cycles() tick_ops->get_tick()
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#ifndef __UM_TIMEX_H
-#define __UM_TIMEX_H
-
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (HZ)
-
-#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
-
-#endif
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ static inline unsigned long random_get_e
}
#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy

-/* Assume we use the PIT time source for the clock tick */
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE PIT_TICK_RATE
-
#define ARCH_HAS_READ_CURRENT_TIMER

#endif /* _ASM_X86_TIMEX_H */