[PATCH v2] clockevents/tcb_clksrc: implement suspend/resume

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 13/06/2017 at 14:21:10 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 20:22, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On sama5d2, power to the core may be cut while entering suspend mode. It is
> > necessary to save and restore the TCB registers.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> 
> The context will be saved/restored on all the platforms (other than
> sama5d2) using this timer even if the clock is not powered down. Is that ok?
> 

Yes, that is fine. There is not much we can do here until we can
determine what is the target suspend state from the drivers.

> Should it be tagged for stable@?
> 

No because support for this suspend mode is not yet upstream.

> Side note: the config option is in drivers/misc, any particular reason
> to have it there and not in the clocksource's Kconfig?
> 

Mostly historical, this is changed in the other series.


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