From: mingo@kernel.org (Ingo Molnar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] clockevents: Add (missing) default case for switch blocks
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150220132220.GB28882@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpokmCof2P8Un+i5eOS3BQhH_pMNATH4xkbbhw5TqJFEy9Q@mail.gmail.com>
* Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 20 February 2015 at 17:11, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> >> Maybe we should break that enum into two; one for devices
> >> and one for the core interface and avoid the problem that
> >> way.
> >
> > Yeah, that would do the trick.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions. Just to confirm (before I spam lists with
> patches), is
> this somewhat similar to what you are looking for ?
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
> index 59af26b54d15..80b669cb836d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
> +++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
> @@ -32,17 +32,24 @@ enum clock_event_nofitiers {
> struct clock_event_device;
> struct module;
>
> -/* Clock event mode commands */
> +/* Clock event mode commands for legacy ->set_mode(): OBSOLETE */
> enum clock_event_mode {
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED = 0,
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN,
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_PERIODIC,
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT,
> CLOCK_EVT_MODE_RESUME,
> -
> - /* Legacy ->set_mode() callback doesn't support below modes */
> };
>
> +/* Clock event modes, only for core's internal use */
> +enum clock_event_dev_mode {
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_UNUSED = 0,
What is 'unused' - not initialized yet?
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_SHUTDOWN,
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_PERIODIC,
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_ONESHOT,
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_RESUME,
What is 'resume' mode?
> + CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_ONESHOT_STOPPED, /* This would be the new
> mode which I will add later */
What does this mode express?
So for state machines it's important to document the states
and the transitions between them very clearly - please
start with that.
> +};
Also, this should not be in a generic header, it should be
somewhere internal in kernel/time/.
> Ofcourse, we also need to replace 'clock_event_mode' with
> 'clock_event_dev_mode' and 'CLOCK_EVT_MODE_*' with
> 'CLOCK_EVT_DEV_MODE_*' in all core code..
Yes.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-20 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-20 6:32 [PATCH] clockevents: Add (missing) default case for switch blocks Viresh Kumar
2015-02-20 8:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-20 9:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 10:12 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-02-20 10:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 11:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-20 11:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 11:56 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-02-20 13:22 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-02-20 13:58 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-02-20 14:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-23 5:33 ` Viresh Kumar
2015-02-23 16:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-24 11:11 ` viresh kumar
2015-02-24 14:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-24 15:12 ` Viresh Kumar
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