[GIT PULL 3/3] ARM: tegra: use us counter as delay timer

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Sun Jul 6 17:49:35 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 03:23:46PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Tegra has a micro-second counter whose rate doesn't vary with cpufreq
> changes. Register it so it can be used as the delay timer, so delays
> aren't influenced by cpufreq.
> 
> I've made this a separate branch since it touches a few files outside
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/. This can be merged anywhere that conflicts need
> to be resolved, although I know of no such places at present.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The following changes since commit 7171511eaec5bf23fb06078f59784a3a0626b38f:
> 
>   Linux 3.16-rc1
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git tegra-for-3.17-delay-timer

I didn't see an ack from clocksource maintainer on that patch, make
sure you get them in the future. I'll take a risk and merge it anyway
this time; the change is fairly well-contained.

Merged into next/soc.


-Olof



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