[PATCH v4 0/5] ARM/ARM64 architected timer updates

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 27 07:22:47 EDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:19:04PM +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha at arm.com>
> 
> This patch series adds support to configure the rate and enable the
> event stream for architected timer. The event streams can be used to
> impose a timeout on a wfe, to safeguard against any programming error
> in case an expected event is not generated or even to implement
> wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations. This feature
> can be disabled(enabled by default).

I had two minor comments. Once they are addressed:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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