RFC: [PATCH] clocksource: tcb: fix min_delta calculation

[mkl@pengutronix.de (Marc Kleine-Budde)]

On 04/23/2013 03:08 PM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> The commit
> 
>     77cc982 clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible
> 
> switches from manually calculating min_delta_ns (and others) and
> clockevents_register_device() to automatic calculation via
> clockevents_config_and_register(). During this conversation the "+ 1" in
> 
>     min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(1, &clkevt.clkevt) + 1;
> 
> was lost. This leads to problems with schedule_delayed_work() with a delay of
> "1". Resulting in the work not scheduled in time.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by increasing the min_delta to "2" ticks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

The problem appears on at91sam9263. This patch successfully fixes the
problem and applies to current linus/master (post v3.9-rc8).

regards,
Marc
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