[PATCH] ARM: twd: Adjust localtimer frequency with cpufreq notifiers

Colin Cross ccross at android.com
Fri Mar 4 15:11:32 EST 2011


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:27 AM, martin persson
<martin.persson at stericsson.com> wrote:
> We've seen no problems using this patch and have been grateful for it's
> existence. So I'm happy to put:
>
> Tested-by: martin.persson at stericsson.com
>
> /Martin
>
> On 03/04/2011 11:17 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> 2010/11/18 Colin Cross<ccross at android.com>:
>>
>>> The clock to the ARM TWD local timer scales with the cpu
>>> frequency. To allow the cpu frequency to change while
>>> maintaining a constant TWD frequency, pick a lower target
>>> frequency for the TWD and use the prescaler to divide down
>>> to the closest lower frequency.
>>
>> We are using this with some custom hooks for the U8500.
>>
>> Tested-by: Linus Walleij<linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>
>> Martin Persson can probably provide an additional Tested-by
>> from ST-Ericsson if it helps.
>>
>> Colin are you merging this patch for 2.6.39 through
>> Russells tracker or pull request? It's an important patch
>> for us.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Linus Walleij
>

I never got any responses, and it conflicts with Rob Herring's patch
6434/1, although that has not been applied.  Russell, do you want this
in the patch tracker?



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