Re: [PATCH v10 0/8] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-11T09:37:49Z

Hi Fu,

Do you mind if I send IORT series where new drivers/acpi/arm64 directory
would be introduced in first place ? This means your GTDT set would
depend on IORT.

Thanks,
Tomasz

On 26.07.2016 14:19, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>
> This patchset:
> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer:
> 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file;
> 2. Add a new enum for spi type;
> 3. Improve printk relevant code.
>
> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c
> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
>
> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer
>
> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer
>
> This patchset has been tested on the following platforms:
> (1)ARM Foundation v8 model
>
> Changelog:
> V10: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/26/
> Drop the "readq" patch.
> Rebase to latest Linux 4.7.
>
> V9: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/345
> Improve pr_err message in acpi gtdt driver.
> Update Commit message for 7/9
> shorten the irq mapping function name
> Improve GTDT driver for memory-mapped timer
>
> v8: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/19/660
> Improve "pr_fmt(fmt)" definition: add "ACPI" in front of "GTDT",
> and also improve printk message.
> Simplify is_timer_block and is_watchdog.
> Merge acpi_gtdt_desc_init and gtdt_arch_timer_init into acpi_gtdt_init();
> Delete __init in include/linux/acpi.h for GTDT API
> Make ARM64 select GTDT.
> Delete "#include <linux/module.h>" from acpi_gtdt.c
> Simplify GT block parse code.
>
> v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/13/769
> Move the GTDT driver to drivers/acpi/arm64
> Add add the ARM64-specific ACPI Support maintainers in MAINTAINERS
> Merge 3 patches of GTDT parser driver.
> Fix the for_each_platform_timer bug.
>
> v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/29/580
> split the GTDT driver to 4 parts: basic, arch_timer, memory-mapped timer,
> and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer
> Improve driver by suggestions and example code from Daniel Lezcano
>
> v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/24/356
> Sorting out all patches, simplify the API of GTDT driver:
> GTDT driver just fills the data struct for arm_arch_timer driver.
>
> v4: https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-acpi/2016-March/006667.html
> Delete the kvm relevant patches
> Separate two patches for sorting out the code for arm_arch_timer.
> Improve irq info export code to allow missing irq info in GTDT table.
>
> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/1/658
> Improve GTDT driver code:
> (1)improve pr_* by defining pr_fmt(fmt)
> (2)simplify gtdt_sbsa_gwdt_init
> (3)improve gtdt_arch_timer_data_init, if table is NULL, it will try
> to get GTDT table.
> Move enum ppi_nr to arm_arch_timer.h, and add enum spi_nr.
> Add arm_arch_timer get ppi from DT and GTDT support for kvm.
>
> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/2/10
> Rebase to latest kernel version(4.4-rc3).
> Fix the bug about the config problem,
> use CONFIG_ACPI_GTDT instead of CONFIG_ACPI in arm_arch_timer.c
>
> v1: The first upstreaming version: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/28/553
>
> Fu Wei (8):
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move enums and defines to header
> file
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add a new enum for spi type
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Improve printk relevant code
> acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Simplify ACPI support code.
> acpi/arm64: Add memory-mapped timer support in GTDT driver
> clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add GTDT support for memory-mapped
> timer
> acpi/arm64: Add SBSA Generic Watchdog support in GTDT driver
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 5 +
> drivers/acpi/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig | 5 +
> drivers/acpi/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c | 309 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 225 +++++++++++++++++--------
> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 1 +
> include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h | 32 ++++
> include/linux/acpi.h | 7 +
> 11 files changed, 518 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/arm64/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c
>