[PATCH] clocksource: tegra: enable arch_timer
Stephen Warren
swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Apr 3 18:48:06 EDT 2013
On 04/03/2013 03:34 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 01:22 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 04/03/2013 07:28 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2013 06:32 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
>>>> Architected timer is the local timer for Cortex-A15. Adding the support
>>>> for Tegra.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> My patch series to add CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE support to arch timer and
>>> sched_clock enhancements will make this unnecessary:
>>>
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg234597.html
>>>
>>> Testing would be appreciated.
>>
>> Joseph (or Rob), what's the benefit of this change; what works with it
>> and/or what breaks without it?
>
> I assume you mean Joseph's change.
Yes.
> Well, it enables local timers on A15.
> But mine will too for Tegra if you have the arch timer in the dtb.
Well, I meant what benefit would I see from enabling them, rather than
using the Tegra-specific timers as I believe is currently happening.
>> Rob, if I did apply this change, and you also apply that series of
>> yours, what is the result: compile-time breakage, run-time breakage,
>> just some redundant code that needs to be removed again?
>
> Compile-time breakage as the functions called here are being removed.
OK, I definitely won't apply Joseph's patch then.
Aside from that, I took the git branch you mentioned in the patch you
linked to above, merged it into my dev tree, updated my bootloader to
actually initialize the TSC correctly, and I see the following during
boot, so I guess that's enough for:
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
on your patches.
> [ 0.000000] sched_clock: 32 bits at 1000kHz, resolution 1000ns, wraps every 4294967ms
> [ 0.000000] Architected local timer running at 12.00MHz (virt).
> [ 0.000000] Switching to timer-based delay loop
> [ 117.431229] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 24.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=120000)
> [ 117.987221] Switching to clocksource arch_sys_counter
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