[PATCH] RFC: nomadik: expand timesource to 63 bits

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Well, you don't need the keepwarm() timer, if you just call
> > sched_clock() in the idle wakeup path, so the magic in the NOHZ code
> > will ensure that you reread the thing timely.
> 
> You still have to make sure you get out of idle before 16 secs has 
> passed.

No, I meant to put it into the idle loop, right after mach_idle() or
whatever is called to put the CPU into deep power sleep. The
clockevents core code makes sure that you get interrupted in time.

Thanks,

	tglx