From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22025C433EF for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:57:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F050D60FF2 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S245231AbhJQKAD (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2021 06:00:03 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36630 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234519AbhJQKAB (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2021 06:00:01 -0400 Received: from disco-boy.misterjones.org (disco-boy.misterjones.org [51.254.78.96]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07D9B60F46; Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=why.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mc2vN-00HJ09-SR; Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:57:49 +0100 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:57:49 +0100 Message-ID: <877decotwi.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Shier , Raghavendra Rao Ananta , Ricardo Koller , Oliver Upton , Catalin Marinas , Linus Walleij , kernel-team@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add basic ARMv8.6 support In-Reply-To: <2cf7b564-63c2-ac6c-a083-f7ac2caab6fc@linaro.org> References: <20211010114306.2910453-1-maz@kernel.org> <20211011110243.GB4068@willie-the-truck> <87mtnfptni.wl-maz@kernel.org> <2cf7b564-63c2-ac6c-a083-f7ac2caab6fc@linaro.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/27.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org, will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, pshier@google.com, rananta@google.com, ricarkol@google.com, oupton@google.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, linus.walleij@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Daniel, On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:59:33 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > > Hi Marc, > > > On 11/10/2021 15:39, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > Thanks for that. All addressed now. I'll repost the series once we've > > addressed the question below. > > > >> How do you want to merge this series? It would be nice to have the arch > >> bits in the arm64 tree, if possible, as we'll be tripping over the cpucaps > >> stuff otherwise. > > > > I think we should keep the series together, as asm/arch_timer.h gets a > > beating all over the place, and there is no chance the arm64 bits at > > the end can apply (let alone work) on their own. > > > > So either Daniel would ack the series for it to go via arm64, or > > create a stable branch with the first 13 patches that would go in both > > the clocksource and arm64 trees. > > > > Daniel, any preference? > > yes, I prefer a stable branch for this series. > > https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux.git/log/?h=timers/drivers/armv8.6_arch_timer > OK, this branch is now slightly outdated, since I have reworked it at Will's request. -rc5 is also too recent a base for arm64, which is usually based on -rc3. I'll repost a new series today or tomorrow and provide tags for both you and Will to pull from. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.