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From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Kunkun Jiang <jiangkunkun@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: arch_timer: Fix the lack of set_next_event* for workaround of Cortex-A73 erratum 858921
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:26:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyBo0SPalTLsqYbS@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220913104723.332-1-jiangkunkun@huawei.com>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:47:23PM +0800, Kunkun Jiang wrote:
> The patch a38b71b0833e moves the programming of the timers from

Please check your patch with scripts/checkpatch.pl next time.
Use this pattern when referring to a commit in the changelog:

commit a38b71b0833e ("clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Move
system register timer programming over to CVAL") moved the
programming...

> the countdown timer (TVAL) over to the comparator (CVAL). This
> makes it necessary to read the counter when setting next event.
> However, the workaround of Cortex-A73 erratum 858921 does not
> set the corresponding set_next_event_phys and set_next_event_virt.
> This patch fixes it.

Avoid referring to 'this patch', and just state imperatively what the
change does, perhaps:

Add the appropriate hooks to apply the erratum mitigation when
programming the next timer event.

Thanks for catching this!

--
Best,
Oliver

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-13 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13 10:47 [PATCH] arm64: arch_timer: Fix the lack of set_next_event* for workaround of Cortex-A73 erratum 858921 Kunkun Jiang
2022-09-13 11:26 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2022-09-14  2:24   ` Kunkun Jiang
2022-09-13 14:12 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-09-14  2:30   ` Kunkun Jiang

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