[PATCH] clockevents: don't suspend/resume if unused

[tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)]

On Mon, 25 May 2015, Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:48:06PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > 
> > > There is no point in calling suspend/resume for unused
> > > clockevents as they are already stopped and disabled.
> > > 
> > > Furthermore, it can take some time to wait for some IPs to stop counting.
> > 
> > While I agree with the patch itself, I really can't understand that
> > last sentence.
> > 
> > If stuff is stopped and disabled, what takes time to stop counting?
> 
> Atmel PIT is a bit weird, writing to AT91_PIT_MR restarts the timer even 
> if you just want to stop it and then the only way to stop the timer is 
> to wait for a complete timer cycle.
> 
> The problem is not when suspending, restarting the timer just before 
> suspending is not such a problem because is will eventually stop at 
> some point in the future.
> 
> However it can takes a very long time if the system switchs to slow 
> clock, therefore when resuming the timer is still running and we have to 
> wait for the PIT to stop counting because we re-enabled it for one cycle 
> when suspending, which is weird, it adds about ~128ms resumt time for 
> Atmel SoC.
 
That's a reasonable explanation.

While timer IPs seem to be designed by janitors in general, this one
has an extraordinary level of stupidity.

Thanks,

	tglx