Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] arm_arch_timer: VDSO preparation, code consolidation

Nathan Lynch
2014-09-22T16:15:56Z

On 09/22/2014 10:39 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:59:32PM +0100, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> This series contains the necessary changes to allow architected timer
>> access from user-space on 32-bit ARM. This allows the VDSO to support
>> high resolution timestamps for clock_gettime and gettimeofday. This
>> also merges substantially similar code from arm and arm64 into the
>> core arm_arch_timer driver.
>>
>> The functional changes are:
>> - When available, CNTVCT is made readable by user space on arm, as it
>> is on arm64.
>> - The clocksource name becomes "arch_mem_counter" if CP15 access to
>> the counter is not available.
>>
>> These changes have been carried as part of the ARM VDSO patch set over
>> the last several months, but I am splitting them out here as I assume
>> they should go through the clocksource maintainers.
>
> For the series:
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>
> I'm not sure which tree the arch-timer stuff usually goes through, but
> the arm/arm64 bits look fine so I'm happy for them to merged together.

Thanks Will.

MAINTAINERS does not have a specific entry for
drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c, so I am working under the
assumption that the series would go through Daniel or Thomas.

Daniel and/or Thomas, can you take this series please?