linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

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Date:	Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:44:28 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 03:41 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> >>> 
> >>> We'll need to change it.
> >>
> >> We can add a call to clocksource_rating_change() inside
> >> acpi_pm_need_workaround(), are there deeper dependencies?
> >
> > There is no deeper dependencies.  If it's meaning
> > clocksource_reselect() in current git, it sounds good to me.
> 
> Ah, I was forgetting why I didn't before. If it's a buggy pmtmr, we'll
> get corrupted time until re-selecting the clocksource.
> 
> If anybody doesn't care this will be good with it. If not, we would
> need to back to old one. IIRC, John did it.

We could just reverse it, use the verified read function until we know
it's a good PM timer, then switch to the faster read function.

Daniel

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