[PATCH v6 0/5] ARM/ARM64 architected timer updates

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Aug 30 07:43:09 EDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> On 29/08/13 15:55, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> > From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha at arm.com>
> > 
> > This patch series adds support to configure the rate and enable the
> > event stream for architected timer. The event streams can be used to
> > impose a timeout on a wfe, to safeguard against any programming error
> > in case an expected event is not generated or even to implement
> > wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations. This feature
> > can be disabled(enabled by default).
> > 
> > Since the timer control register is reset to zero on warm boot, CPU
> > PM notifier is added to save and restore the value.
> > 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Can you have a look at this series ?
> If you are OK, can I have your ACK on arm specific changes(PATCH 2/5) ?

I think it would be more value to have someone from ARM Ltd ack it,
because they will know the code much better than I do.



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