Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 2015 11:33:02 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion |
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:03:34PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On 30/04/15 15:19, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >On 30/04/15 15:09, Rob Herring wrote: > >>On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote: > >>>The header asm/hardware/arm_timer.h is included in various machine > >>>specific files to access TIMER_CTRL and initialise to a known state. > >>>However that's not required as the clock{source,event} driver timer-sp > >>>initialises all the timer being used. > >> > >>I believe the idea is not to initialize the timers being used, but the > >>ones not being used and perhaps left running by the bootloader. Cases > >>where the interrupt is shared could cause a problem. > > Russell, can you confirm if that's the case ?
Unless you want to test all these platforms, I would suggest we assume this is the case. The comments even state "Initialise to a known state (all timers off)".
> >Ah OK, makes sense. I will wait for Russell to confirm. The main idea > >was to keep the header file having offsets local to driver/clocksource > >and avoid sharing it in include/linux but looks like that's not possible. > > Since we need this driver on ARM64, we might have to end up sharing the > header file with offsets if required for ARM platforms(though it would > be good to avoid it if there's any better alternative solution than that)
Can you not just move the definitions to include/clocksource/timer-sp804.h and add some SP804_ prefix to avoid name collisions?
-- Catalin
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