From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932282Ab3LDO1g (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 09:27:36 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:51662 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932238Ab3LDO1e (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Dec 2013 09:27:34 -0500 Message-ID: <529F3BCA.1020908@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:27:22 +0800 From: Hanjun Guo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Rutland CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Lezcano , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "grant.likely@linaro.org" , Matthew Garrett , Olof Johansson , Linus Walleij , Bjorn Helgaas , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , Jon Masters , "patches@linaro.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , "linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" Subject: Re: [RFC part3 PATCH 2/2] ARM64 / clocksource: Use arch_timer_acpi_init() References: <1386088891-2917-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1386088891-2917-3-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <20131203170815.GB16025@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20131203170815.GB16025@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2013年12月04日 01:08, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:41:31PM +0000, Hanjun Guo wrote: >> Use arch_timer_acpi_init() on ARM64 to initialise arch timer >> in ACPI way when DT is not available. >> >> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo >> --- >> arch/arm64/kernel/time.c | 4 ++++ >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c >> index 29c39d5..fb009da 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/time.c >> @@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ void __init time_init(void) >> >> clocksource_of_init(); >> >> + /* if can't be initialised from DT, try ACPI way */ >> + if (!arch_timer_get_rate()) >> + arch_timer_acpi_init(); >> + > As mentioned on the previous patch, I think for the timebeing we should > rely on CNTFREQ. > > Additionally, if you need to do this we should have an analagous > mechanism to clocksource_of_init() that performs this initialisation for > ACPI, and here we can call a clocksource_*_init function that does the > right thing. > > There's no need for this file to know anything about ACPI. Oh, Amit already have some patches to introduce clocksource_acpi_init() like clocksource_of_init() did, please refer to the link below. http://marc.info/?l=linaro-acpi&m=138131929721943&w=2 is this the idea you mentioned in your comments? Thanks Hanjun