drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c- Extension
.c- Size
- 931 bytes
- Lines
- 38
- Domain
- Driver Families
- Bucket
- drivers/clocksource
- Inferred role
- Driver Families: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/clockchips.hlinux/cpu.hlinux/init.hlinux/percpu.hlinux/cpumask.h
Detected Declarations
function dummy_timer_starting_cpufunction dummy_timer_register
Annotated Snippet
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
* linux/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c
*
* Copyright (C) 2013 ARM Ltd.
* All Rights Reserved
*/
#include <linux/clockchips.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct clock_event_device, dummy_timer_evt);
static int dummy_timer_starting_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
{
struct clock_event_device *evt = per_cpu_ptr(&dummy_timer_evt, cpu);
evt->name = "dummy_timer";
evt->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC |
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT |
CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY;
evt->rating = 100;
evt->cpumask = cpumask_of(cpu);
clockevents_register_device(evt);
return 0;
}
static int __init dummy_timer_register(void)
{
return cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_DUMMY_TIMER_STARTING,
"clockevents/dummy_timer:starting",
dummy_timer_starting_cpu, NULL);
}
early_initcall(dummy_timer_register);
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/clockchips.h`, `linux/cpu.h`, `linux/init.h`, `linux/percpu.h`, `linux/cpumask.h`.
- Detected declarations: `function dummy_timer_starting_cpu`, `function dummy_timer_register`.
- Atlas domain: Driver Families / drivers/clocksource.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.