From: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Preeti U Murthy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: ls1021a: setup hrtimer based tick broadcast
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:27:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54818FB1.9010901@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141205102714.GD11889@leverpostej>
On 12/05/2014 03:57 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 09:07:29AM +0000, Jingchang Lu wrote:
>> This adds setup of hrtimer based tick broadcast to utilize
>> the hrtimer in SMP without other broadcast tick devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jingchang Lu <jingchang.lu@freescale.com>
>
> This shouldn't live in board code.
>
> Similarly to what happens with the generic dummy timer on all arches
> that select it (and the broadcast hrtimer on all arches that use it so
> far), we should just unconditionally register the broadcast hrtimer.
>
> A real broadcast-capable clock event device will take preference if
> present, so we don't need to add board-specific code to only register
> this in certain conditions.
Hmm.. this makes sense to me. Let me send out a patch to do this.
Regards
Preeti U Murthy
>
> Mark.
>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-ls1021a.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-ls1021a.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-ls1021a.c
>> index b89c858..4d074cf 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-ls1021a.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-ls1021a.c
>> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
>> * (at your option) any later version.
>> */
>>
>> +#include <linux/clockchips.h>
>> +#include <linux/clk-provider.h>
>> +#include <linux/clocksource.h>
>> +
>> #include <asm/mach/arch.h>
>>
>> #include "common.h"
>> @@ -16,7 +20,15 @@ static const char * const ls1021a_dt_compat[] __initconst = {
>> NULL,
>> };
>>
>> +static void __init ls1021a_init_time(void)
>> +{
>> + of_clk_init(NULL);
>> + clocksource_of_init();
>> + tick_setup_hrtimer_broadcast();
>> +}
>> +
>> DT_MACHINE_START(LS1021A, "Freescale LS1021A")
>> .smp = smp_ops(ls1021a_smp_ops),
>> + .init_time = ls1021a_init_time,
>> .dt_compat = ls1021a_dt_compat,
>> MACHINE_END
>> --
>> 1.8.0
>>
>>
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>>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-05 9:07 [PATCH] arm: ls1021a: setup hrtimer based tick broadcast Jingchang Lu
2014-12-05 10:27 ` Mark Rutland
2014-12-05 10:57 ` Preeti U Murthy [this message]
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