[PATCH 3/3] ARM: EXYNOS5250: Register architected timers

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Wed Apr 3 00:56:07 EDT 2013


Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 04/02/2013 12:44 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> > Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> When running on an exynos 5250 SoC, we don't initialize the architected
> >> timers. The chip however supports architected timers.
> >>
> > Yes, exynos5250 can support, mct(multi core timer) is used though.
> >
> >> When we don't initialize them, KVM will try to access them and run into
> >> NULL pointer dereferences attempting to do so.
> >>
> > Yes, right.
> >
> >> This patch is really more of a hack than a real fix, but does get me
> >> working with KVM on Arndale.
> >>
> > Hmm, if you think, this is _really_ a hack, you need to add some
> comments
> > about that for clearance, and since the mct.c file has been moved into
> > drivers/clocksource/, this should be re-worked.
> >
> > BTW, I discussed about this with Thomas and Giridhar just now, we
> reached
> > this 3rd patch could be dropped because the correct way is to add a dts
> > node for arch timer which patch 2nd is already doing after 3.9-rc1
> because
> > of CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE macro.
> >
> > So if you' OK above, let me know so that I can take only 1st and 2nd
> > patches to support KVM on exynos5250.
> 
> I'd say go ahead and take them and I'll verify whether things work on
> your tree :).
> 
OK, I will.

> What's the git repo of your branch?
> 
You can test with my for-next branch but this series can be seen tomorrow
night(KST) in my public tree.

Any problems, please let me know.

Thanks.

- Kukjin




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