[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: delay: allow timer-based delay implementation to be selected

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Jul 24 05:15:05 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:06:06AM +0100, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> Hi Will, Jonathan,
> 
> On 7/20/2012 7:17 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> >> We should probably also ignore and additional registration calls, not just
> >> those made after the delay loop has been calibrated...
> >>
> >> Something like the patch below should do the trick.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Cheers, pushed into my delay branch.
> 
> Thanks for the registration machanism.  It looks nice, and works for
> me on a Cortex-A9 SMP platform with a non-arch_timer counter.

That's good to hear, thanks.

> I've picked up a revised version of the patch from will/delay and
> merged it into our local development branch.  We'll give it a try
> in different conditions, UP and SMP, with/without DVFS and so on,
> and let you know if I find anything.

Great! If everything looks good, and you're interested in using this in
mainline, I could push the registration for 3.7. I just don't want to see it
there if nobody's using it.

Will



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