[PATCH v2 1/3] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: change clocksource name if CP15 unavailable

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Sep 26 02:26:04 PDT 2014


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 09/18/2014 04:59 PM, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > The arm and arm64 VDSOs need CP15 access to the architected counter.
> > If this is unavailable (which is allowed by ARM v7), indicate this by
> > changing the clocksource name to "arch_mem_counter" before registering
> > the clocksource.
> >
> > Suggested by Stephen Boyd.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch at mentor.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> is it possible to have the acked-by of the different maintainers for the 
> other patches ?

FWIW: I acked the series:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-September/289143.html

There's ongoing debate about whether or not we should have a vdso, but this
series still makes sense in isolation.

Will



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