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From: afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com (Afzal Mohammed)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: spin one more cycle in timer-based delays
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:47:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161119071702.GA25647@afzalpc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <582F0DD2.3030805@free.fr>

Hi Mason,

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 18/11/2016 13:54, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > So, NAK on this change.  udelay is not super-accurate.
> 
> usleep_range() fixed this issue recently.
> 6c5e9059692567740a4ee51530dffe51a4b9584d
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=timers/core&id=6c5e9059692567740a4ee51530dffe51a4b9584d

But the above "timers: Fix usleep_range() in the context of
wake_up_process()" is to avoid wakeup causing premature return than
about being precise, no ?

With conflicting opinion on delay/sleep fn's from the players, the one
in gallery would get confused.

But Linus has mentioned udelay as not meant to be precise, okay ?

Regards
afzal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-19  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-15 13:36 [PATCH] arm: spin one more cycle in timer-based delays Mason
2016-11-18 12:06 ` Will Deacon
2016-11-18 12:24   ` Mason
2016-11-18 12:54   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-18 14:18     ` Mason
2016-11-18 14:42       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-18 17:51       ` Mason
2016-11-19  7:17       ` Afzal Mohammed [this message]
2016-11-19 11:03         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-19 18:29           ` Mason
2016-11-20 19:18             ` Doug Anderson
2016-11-20 19:44               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-11-20 20:00                 ` Mason
2016-11-20  6:15           ` Afzal Mohammed
2016-11-20 19:15           ` Doug Anderson
2016-11-18 17:13     ` Doug Anderson
2016-11-18 17:32       ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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