Enable arm_global_timer for Zynq brakes boot

Sören Brinkmann soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Mon Aug 12 12:43:42 EDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:40:52AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 08/12/13 09:24, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:20:19AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >> On 08/12/13 09:03, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 10:27:57AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>>> On 08/09, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >>>>> yes, but at least the broadcast mechanism should send an IPI to cpu0 to
> >>>>> wake it up, no ? As Stephen stated this kind of configuration should has
> >>>>> never been tested before so the tick broadcast code is not handling this
> >>>>> case properly IMHO.
> >>>>>
> >>>> If you have a per-cpu tick device that isn't suffering from
> >>>> FEAT_C3_STOP why wouldn't you use that for the tick versus a
> >>>> per-cpu tick device that has FEAT_C3_STOP? It sounds like there
> >>>> is a bug in the preference logic or you should boost the rating
> >>>> of the arm global timer above the twd. Does this patch help? It
> >>>> should make the arm global timer the tick device and whatever the
> >>>> cadence timer you have into the broadcast device.
> >>> I finally got to test your patch. Unfortunately, it makes the system
> >>> hang even earlier:
> >> Sorry it had a bug depending on the registration order. Can you try this
> >> one (tabs are probably spaces, sorry)? I will go read through this
> >> thread to see if we already covered the registration order.
> > What is the base for your patch? I based my GT enable patch on 3.11-rc3
> > and for consistency in our debugging, I didn't move it elsewhere since.
> > Your patch doesn't apply cleanly on it. I see if I can work it out, just
> > let me know if it depends on something not available in 3.11-rc3.
> 
> I applied this on 3.11-rc4. I don't think anything has changed there
> between rc3 and rc4. so you're probably running into the whitespace problem.

That or the scissors are my problem. I never worked with scissors and it
looks kinda odd what happened when I am'ed the patch. Anyway, I just
manually merged it in.

	Sören





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