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 561C3C433F5 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E98E6137F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234603AbhJSIEQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:04:16 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34070 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231701AbhJSICa (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:02:30 -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 747216136F; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:00:18 +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 1mck2i-0009B1-Hs; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:00:16 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:00:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87v91to35b.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: References: <20211010114306.2910453-1-maz@kernel.org> <20211011110243.GB4068@willie-the-truck> <87mtnfptni.wl-maz@kernel.org> <2cf7b564-63c2-ac6c-a083-f7ac2caab6fc@linaro.org> <877decotwi.wl-maz@kernel.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 On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:51:19 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > On 17/10/2021 11:57, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > 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. > > Ok, thanks. I've updated the branch accordingly. > > Let me know if everything is fine, so I can prepare a PR for the 'tip' tree. Looks OK to me, although you seem to carry two distinct versions of the patches (v3 and v4) in -next. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.