[PATCHv2 07/11] arm: arch_timer: divorce from local_timer api

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Friday 11 January 2013 10:16 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:34:23PM +0000, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Wednesday 09 January 2013 09:37 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> Currently, the arch_timer driver is tied to the arm port, as it relies
>>> on code in arch/arm/smp.c to setup and teardown timers as cores are
>>> hotplugged on and off. The timer is registered through an arm-specific
>>> registration mechanism, preventing sharing the driver with the arm64
>>> port.
>>>
>>> This patch moves the driver to using a cpu notifier instead, making it
>>> easier to port.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>>> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>>> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>>> ---
>> This is really a nit idea. I think we should do the same
>> for ARM gic code.
>
> I plan to do the same once Rob's GIC patches get merged. In my
> soc-armv8-model branch I have a copy of gic.c into drivers/irqchip and
> the CPU interface is done automatically via a notifier. The only trick
> is to set the priority of the GIC notifier higher than the timer one.
>
Great. Thanks for the information.

Regards,
Santosh