linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] ARM/ARM64 architected timer updates

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Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:04:06 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] ARM/ARM64 architected timer updates

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:43:09PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> > On 29/08/13 15:55, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> > > From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@....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).
> > > 
> > > Since the timer control register is reset to zero on warm boot, CPU
> > > PM notifier is added to save and restore the value.
> > > 
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Can you have a look at this series ?
> > If you are OK, can I have your ACK on arm specific changes(PATCH 2/5) ?
> 
> I think it would be more value to have someone from ARM Ltd ack it,
> because they will know the code much better than I do.

Looks good to me, so for patch 2/5:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Will
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