Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 2015 11:42:24 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:19:01PM +0100, 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. > > > > 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.
An alternative would be to have a new function, something like sp804_disable() which takes the virtual address of the timer. That'd still allow the platforms to disable all timers, but without exposing the register stuff to them.
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