Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] tick: Add freeze timer events

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, dbasehore . wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, dbasehore . wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> I could make a patch to try it out. I would probably add a flag to rtc
> >> timers to indicate whether it wakes the system (default true). We
> >> would have to add a sync with the rtc irq and the rtc irqwork. I would
> >> probably add a rtc_timer_sync function that would flush the rtc irq
> >> and flush the irqwork. I would call this after the freeze_ops sync
> >> function since the sci irq needs to finish before syncing with the rtc
> >> irq. Also, pm_wakeup_irq seems racy with the current implementation of
> >> s2idle_loop since the RTC irq could be mistakenly set as pm_wakeup_irq
> >> when something else actually triggered the full wakeup. Fortunately, I
> >> don't think pm_wakeup_irq is used for anything except debugging, but
> >> we might change that.
> >
> > There is another option which you might consider. We can reserve one of the
> > HPET comparators for that purpose and have a special interrupt handler for
> > it. Checking the HPET for expiry from the low level code should be trivial.
> >
> Does that handle setting up new timers properly or does the timer sync
> code still need to be written?

Sorry, I don't understand the question. What is timer sync code?

Thanks,

	tglx