[PATCH 3/6] arm: kconfig: don't select TWD with local timer for Armada 370/XP
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jan 21 13:31:45 EST 2013
On Monday 21 January 2013, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> @@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ config LOCAL_TIMERS
> bool "Use local timer interrupts"
> depends on SMP
> default y
> - select HAVE_ARM_TWD if (!ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP && !EXYNOS4_MCT)
> + select HAVE_ARM_TWD if (!ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP && !EXYNOS4_MCT && !ARMADA_370_XP_TIMER)
>
Your change is fine, but I just noticed that this line is asking for trouble
when we enable multipleform support for MSM and/or EXYNOS.
Also, I wonder if we should change this somehow in 3.8, because it seems
that for a multiplatform kernel including armadaxp and e.g. versatile express,
you have no ARM_TWD support in the kernel, which seems wrong. Is there any
reason we can't enable the ARM_TWD code to be built-in on platforms that
don't use it?
Maybe it can be written as
config LOCAL_TIMERS
bool "Use local timer interrupts"
depends on SMP
default y
config HAVE_ARM_TWD
depends on LOCAL_TIMERS
default ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM || (!ARCH_MSM_SCORPIONMP && !EXYNOS4_MCT)
default y
This will still be slightly wrong (generating extra code) on a multiplatform
kernel that has no platform other than MSM or EXYNOS, but the other alternative
would be that each platform with TWD support has to select HAVE_ARM_TWD itself.
Arnd
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