[PATCH v20 00/17] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer
Hanjun Guo
hanjun.guo at linaro.org
Thu Jan 19 01:20:07 PST 2017
Hi Fuwei,
On 2017/1/18 21:25, fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei at linaro.org>
>
> This patchset:
> (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer:
> 1. Clean up printk() usage
> 2. Rename the type macros
> 3. Rename the PPI enum & enum values
> 4. Move the type macro and PPI enum into the header file
> 5. Add new enum for SPIs
> 6. Rework PPI determination;
> 7. Rework counter frequency detection;
> 8. Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing, move it into DT init call
> 9. Introduce some new structs and refactor the MMIO timer init code
> for reusing some common code.
>
> (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c
> Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
> memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
> This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
> and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
>
> (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer
>
> (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer.
>
> This patchset has been tested on the following platforms with ACPI enabled:
> (1)ARM Foundation v8 model
>
> Changelog:
> v20: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/18/
> Reorder the first 4 patches and split the 4th patches.
> Leave CNTHCTL_* as they originally were.
> Fix the bug in arch_timer_select_ppi.
> Split "Rework counter frequency detection" patch.
> Rework the arch_timer_detect_rate function.
> Improve the commit message of "Refactor MMIO timer probing".
> Rebase to 4.10.0-rc4
Other than some minor comments I raised, the patch set
looks fine to me, and I tested this patch set on D03,
the percpu arch timer works fine as before.
With the comments fixed,
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.gu at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.gu at linaro.org>
Thanks
Hanjun
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