From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:09:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Allwinner A64 timer workaround In-Reply-To: <20180511022751.9096-1-samuel@sholland.org> References: <20180511022751.9096-1-samuel@sholland.org> Message-ID: <2c16d5ab-38f7-8f3e-875c-19e8032f440a@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/05/18 03:27, Samuel Holland wrote: > Hello, > > Several people (including me) have experienced extremely large system > clock jumps on their A64-based devices, apparently due to the > architectural timer going backward, which is interpreted by Linux as > the timer wrapping around after 2^56 cycles. > > Investigation led to discovery of some obvious problems with this SoC's > architectural timer, and this patch series introduces what I believe is > the simplest workaround. More details are in the commit message for > patch 1. Patch 2 simply enables the workaround in the device tree. What's the deal with this series? There was a couple of nits to address, and I was more or less expecting a v2. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...