Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: change clocksource name if CP15 unavailable

Daniel Lezcano
2014-09-26T11:34:11Z

On 09/26/2014 11:26 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 09/18/2014 04:59 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>>> The arm and arm64 VDSOs need CP15 access to the architected counter.
>>> If this is unavailable (which is allowed by ARM v7), indicate this by
>>> changing the clocksource name to "arch_mem_counter" before registering
>>> the clocksource.
>>>
>>> Suggested by Stephen Boyd.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> is it possible to have the acked-by of the different maintainers for the
>> other patches ?
>
> FWIW: I acked the series:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-September/289143.html
>
> There's ongoing debate about whether or not we should have a vdso, but this
> series still makes sense in isolation.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.

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