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SubjectRe: [PATCH] watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: Only register for cpufreq on CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX
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On Monday 25 of November 2013 15:23:27 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 02:55 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > On modern SoCs the watchdog timer is parented on a clock that doesn't
> > change every time we have a cpufreq change. That means we don't need
> > to constantly adjust the watchdog timer, so avoid registering for and
> > dealing with cpufreq transitions unless we've actually got
> > CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX defined.
> >
> > Note that this is more than just an optimization. The s3c2410
> > watchdog driver actually pats the watchdog on every CPU frequency
> > change. On modern systems these happen many times per second (even in
> > a system where "nothing" is happening). That effectively makes any
> > userspace watchdog program useless (the watchdog is constantly patted
> > by the kernel). If we need CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX defined on a
> > multiplatform kernel we'll need to make sure that kernel supports
> > common clock and change this to user common clock framework.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> > index 7d8fd04..4980f84 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> > @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static irqreturn_t s3c2410wdt_irq(int irqno, void *param)
> > return IRQ_HANDLED;
> > }
> >
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX
> >
> Where is the CPU_FREQ_S3C24XX configuration option defined ? I don't see it
> in the current upstream kernel, so it appears that this depends on some
> out-of-tree changes.

Seems like it got renamed to ARM_S3C24XX_CPUFREQ by f023f8dd59.

Best regards,
Tomasz



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