From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863AbbCLJTP (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:19:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:34228 "EHLO mail-wg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbbCLJTM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 05:19:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:19:05 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: John Stultz Cc: lkml , Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Richard Cochran , Prarit Bhargava , Stephen Boyd , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups (v4) Message-ID: <20150312091905.GA15300@gmail.com> References: <1426133800-29329-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1426133800-29329-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * John Stultz wrote: > So here is another round of this series, which is the result of > earlier discussions with Linus and his suggestions around > improvements to clocksource validation in the hope we can more > easily catch bad hardware. > > There's also a few cleanups Linus suggested as well as a few I've been > meaning to get to for awhile. > > I tried in address all the feedback that had been given, adding > the checks behind CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING. I also sorted out a > sane way to print rate-limited warnings if we see cycle deltas that > are too large, or if they look like small underflows. > > I'd like to get this queued into -tip soon so it can get as much > testing in -next as possible. > > If there are any objections or feedback, I'd love to hear it! > > New in v4: > * Lots and lots of typo corrections and minor cleanups suggested > by Ingo. > * Dropped "Remove clocksource_max_deferment()" patch > * Added "Rename __clocksource_updatefreq_*..." patch > * I realized one of the patches (Improve clocksource watchdog > reporting) didn't have a proper cc list, so while it was on lkml > folks may not have reviewed it before. So I've applied them with some changes to tip:timers/core, please look at the commit notifications for details. Any outstanding review feedback can be addressed as delta patches on top of this I think, none of my observations were show-stoppers. Thanks, Ingo