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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>, Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>,
	arm@kernel.org, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: omap2: drop broken broadcast timer hack
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 08:57:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528155759.GP37466@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528135057.GO37466@atomide.com>

* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [200528 13:51]:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [200528 13:47]:
> > * Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [200528 09:20]:
> > > The OMAP4 timer code had a special hack for using the broadcast timer
> > > without SMP. Since the dmtimer is now gone, this also needs to be dropped
> > > to avoid a link failure for non-SMP AM43xx configurations:
> > > 
> > > kernel/time/tick-broadcast.o: in function `tick_device_uses_broadcast':
> > > tick-broadcast.c:(.text+0x130): undefined reference to `tick_broadcast'
> > 
> > Hmm this sounds like a regression though. Isn't this needed for using
> > the ARM local timers on non-SMP SoC, so a separate timer from dmtimer?
> > 
> > I've probably removed something accidentally to cause this.
> 
> Sounds like arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile change needs to be removed
> to always still build in timer.o. And probably timer.c needs back
> the ifdef for CONFIG_SOC_HAS_REALTIME_COUNTER.
> 
> I'll take a look today.

I've sent a patch along those lines as:

[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix regression for using local timer on non-SMP SoCs

A link for the patch at [0] below.

Regards,

Tony

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-omap/20200528155453.8585-1-tony@atomide.com/T/#u

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28  9:19 [PATCH] ARM: omap2: drop broken broadcast timer hack Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-28 13:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2020-05-28 13:50   ` Tony Lindgren
2020-05-28 15:57     ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2020-05-28 16:18       ` santosh.shilimkar
2020-05-28 20:33         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-28 20:38           ` Tony Lindgren

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