[PATCH v4] twd: Don't set CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP unconditionally

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Oct 8 11:34:28 PDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 08:25:07PM +0200, Mason wrote:
> On 08/10/2015 19:57, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> Is it possible that twd_local_timer_common_register() would be
> >> called more than once?
> >>
> >> twd_local_timer_register() guards against multiple invocations,
> >> but twd_local_timer_of_register() doesn't (but maybe there is
> >> some guarantee from OF, or it's invalid to have multiple
> >> "arm,cortex-a9-twd-timer" strings in the DT).
> > 
> > It does appear that were you to have have two or more
> > "arm,cortex-a9-twd-timer" nodes in the DT, things would go wrong. As far
> > as I am aware, that would result in multiple calls to
> > twd_local_timer_of_register.
> > 
> > I don't think it would ever be valid to have two nodes for this
> > particular device, but it's probably worth having the same check as
> > twd_local_timer_register does, with a warning that there was more than
> > one such node logged to the console.
> 
> Hmmm, I think I'll do it in a follow-up patch, once Felipe's
> revert hits mainline.

Sure, this is certainly independent of the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP patch.

Thanks,
Mark.



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