[PATCH] ARM: twd: Adjust localtimer frequency with cpufreq notifiers

martin persson martin.persson at stericsson.com
Fri Mar 4 05:27:41 EST 2011


We've seen no problems using this patch and have been grateful for it's existence. So I'm happy to put:

Tested-by: martin.persson at stericsson.com

/Martin

On 03/04/2011 11:17 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2010/11/18 Colin Cross<ccross at android.com>:
>
>> The clock to the ARM TWD local timer scales with the cpu
>> frequency. To allow the cpu frequency to change while
>> maintaining a constant TWD frequency, pick a lower target
>> frequency for the TWD and use the prescaler to divide down
>> to the closest lower frequency.
> We are using this with some custom hooks for the U8500.
>
> Tested-by: Linus Walleij<linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> Martin Persson can probably provide an additional Tested-by
> from ST-Ericsson if it helps.
>
> Colin are you merging this patch for 2.6.39 through
> Russells tracker or pull request? It's an important patch
> for us.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij



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