[PATCH v21 00/13] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer
Fu Wei
fu.wei at linaro.org
Thu Mar 9 14:47:16 PST 2017
Hi Mark, Marc,
I have tried to rebase all the 19(6+13) patches on 4.11-rc1,
all the patchse can directly apply on 4.11-rc1,
Could you help to review the patches, and see if there is anywhere I
can improve ?
Great thanks ! :-)
On 20 February 2017 at 17:20, Fu Wei <fu.wei at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark, Marc
>
> On 7 February 2017 at 02:50, <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. Introduce two functions to get the frequency from mmio and sysreg.
>> 2. separate out device-tree code from arch_timer_detect_rate
>> 3. remove arch_timer_detect_rate use arch_timer_get_*_freq directly
>> 4. split arch_timer_rate for different types of timer
>> 5. Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing, and move it into DT init call
>> 6. 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:
>> v21: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/6/
>> Introduce two functions to get the frequency from mmio and sysreg.
>> Remove arch_timer_detect_rate use arch_timer_get_*_freq directly
>> Split arch_timer_rate for different types of timer.
>> Skip secure timer frame in GTDT driver.
>> Rebase to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git arch-timer/cleanup
>> (The first 6 patches in v20 have been merged into arch-timer/cleanup branch)
>
> Did I follow your suggestion correctly?
> I wonder how to improve this patchset. May I have your some suggestion
> or feedback on v21? :-)
>
> Great thanks for your help!
>
>>
>> v20: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/1/18/534
>> 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
>>
>> v19: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/21/25
>> Fix a '\n' missing in a error message in arch_timer_mem_init.
>> Add "request_mem_region" for ioremapping cntbase, according to
>> f947ee1 clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
>> Rebase to 4.9.0-gfb779ff
>>
>> v18: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/12/8/446
>> Fix 8/15 patch problem of "int ret;" in arch_timer_acpi_init.
>> Rebase to 4.9.0-rc8-g9269898
>>
>> v17: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/25/140
>> Take out some cleanups from 4/15.
>> Merge 5/15 and 6/15, improve PPI determination code,
>> improve commit message.
>> Rework counter frequency detection.
>> Move arch_timer_needs_of_probing into DT init call.
>> Move Platform Timer scan loop back to timer init call to avoid allocating
>> and free memory.
>> Improve all the exported functions' comment.
>>
>> v16: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/16/268
>> Fix patchset problem about static enum ppi_nr of 01/13 in v15.
>> Refactor arch_timer_detect_rate.
>> Refactor arch_timer_needs_probing.
>>
>> v15: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/15/366
>> Re-order patches
>> Add arm_arch_timer refactoring patches to prepare for GTDT:
>> 1. rename some enums and defines, and some cleanups
>> 2. separate out arch_timer_uses_ppi init code and fix a potential bug
>> 3. Improve some new structs, refactor the timer init code.
>> Since the some structs have been changed, GTDT parser for memory-mapped
>> timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer have been update.
>>
>> v14: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/28/573
>> Separate memory-mapped timer GTDT support into two patches
>> 1. Refactor the timer init code to prepare for GTDT
>> 2. Add GTDT support for memory-mapped timer
>>
>> v13: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1231717.html
>> Improve arm_arch_timer code for memory-mapped
>> timer GTDT support, refactor original memory-mapped timer
>> dt support for reusing some common code.
>>
>> v12: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/13/250
>> Rebase to latest Linux 4.8-rc6
>> Delete the confusing "skipping" in the error message.
>>
>> V11: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/6/354
>> Rebase to latest Linux 4.8-rc5
>> Delete typedef (suggested by checkpatch.pl)
>>
>> V10: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/26/215
>> Drop the "readq" patch.
>> Rebase to latest Linux 4.7.
>>
>> V9: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/345
>> Improve pr_err message in acpi gtdt driver.
>> Update Commit message for 7/9
>> shorten the irq mapping function name
>> Improve GTDT driver for memory-mapped timer
>>
>> v8: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/19/660
>> Improve "pr_fmt(fmt)" definition: add "ACPI" in front of "GTDT",
>> and also improve printk message.
>> Simplify is_timer_block and is_watchdog.
>> Merge acpi_gtdt_desc_init and gtdt_arch_timer_init into acpi_gtdt_init();
>> Delete __init in include/linux/acpi.h for GTDT API
>> Make ARM64 select GTDT.
>> Delete "#include <linux/module.h>" from acpi_gtdt.c
>> Simplify GT block parse code.
>>
>> v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/13/769
>> Move the GTDT driver to drivers/acpi/arm64
>> Add add the ARM64-specific ACPI Support maintainers in MAINTAINERS
>> Merge 3 patches of GTDT parser driver.
>> Fix the for_each_platform_timer bug.
>>
>> v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/29/580
>> split the GTDT driver to 4 parts: basic, arch_timer, memory-mapped timer,
>> and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer
>> Improve driver by suggestions and example code from Daniel Lezcano
>>
>> v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/24/356
>> Sorting out all patches, simplify the API of GTDT driver:
>> GTDT driver just fills the data struct for arm_arch_timer driver.
>>
>> v4: https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-acpi/2016-March/006667.html
>> Delete the kvm relevant patches
>> Separate two patches for sorting out the code for arm_arch_timer.
>> Improve irq info export code to allow missing irq info in GTDT table.
>>
>> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/1/658
>> Improve GTDT driver code:
>> (1)improve pr_* by defining pr_fmt(fmt)
>> (2)simplify gtdt_sbsa_gwdt_init
>> (3)improve gtdt_arch_timer_data_init, if table is NULL, it will try
>> to get GTDT table.
>> Move enum ppi_nr to arm_arch_timer.h, and add enum spi_nr.
>> Add arm_arch_timer get ppi from DT and GTDT support for kvm.
>>
>> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/2/10
>> Rebase to latest kernel version(4.4-rc3).
>> Fix the bug about the config problem,
>> use CONFIG_ACPI_GTDT instead of CONFIG_ACPI in arm_arch_timer.c
>>
>> v1: The first upstreaming version: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/28/553
>>
>> Fu Wei (13):
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: introduce two functions to get the
>> frequency from mmio and sysreg.
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: separate out device-tree code from
>> arch_timer_detect_rate
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: remove arch_timer_detect_rate
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: split arch_timer_rate for different types
>> of timer
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: refactor arch_timer_needs_probing
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: move arch_timer_needs_of_probing into DT
>> init call
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: introduce some new structs to prepare for
>> GTDT
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: refactor MMIO timer probing.
>> acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: simplify ACPI support code.
>> acpi/arm64: Add memory-mapped timer support in GTDT driver
>> clocksource: arm_arch_timer: add GTDT support for memory-mapped timer
>> acpi/arm64: Add SBSA Generic Watchdog support in GTDT driver
>>
>> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>> drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +
>> drivers/acpi/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/acpi/arm64/gtdt.c | 378 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 354 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
>> drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 1 +
>> include/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.h | 17 ++
>> include/linux/acpi.h | 7 +
>> 8 files changed, 635 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/arm64/gtdt.c
>>
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fu Wei
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat
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Best regards,
Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat
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