linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core

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Message-ID: <20131014073436.GX10079@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:34:37 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	John Stulz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@...itan.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core

Hello Linus, hello Ingo,

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > What's the status of this patch?
> I pinged Thomas about it already via irc, but I didn't get a response up
> to now. It would be great to get that into 3.12. To make it easy for
> Thomas, here is a pull request that includes the fix and converts
> at91rm9200 back to clockevents_config_and_register dropping one of the
> workarounds for the fixed bug.
> 
> The following changes since commit 4a10c2ac2f368583138b774ca41fac4207911983:
> 
>   Linux 3.12-rc2 (2013-09-23 15:41:09 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux.git tags/timer-for-tip
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to b58c4b70121070f45eefa739ecbb58d57da1c4d9:
> 
>   ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register (2013-10-08 16:58:22 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The first patch in this pull request fixes an old integer rounding bug in the
> timer core that was (and still is) worked around in a few arch's timer code.
> The second patch drops such a work around now that the core is fixed.
It would be nice to get that fix into 3.12, but Thomas stopped
responding nearly a month ago---his last mail in this thread[1] dates back
to September 20.

Can one of you please take it directly?

Thanks
Uwe

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1563370/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Gleixner (1):
>       clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion
> 
> Uwe Kleine-König (1):
>       ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register
> 
>  arch/arm/mach-at91/at91rm9200_time.c |  7 ++--
>  kernel/time/clockevents.c            | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
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