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

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Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:19:47 +0200
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	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>,
	<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

On 14/10/2013 09:34, Uwe Kleine-König :
> 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?

I second Uwe in his request (aka +1).

Thanks, bye,

> [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(-)
>>
>> --
>> Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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