linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Copy register_persistent

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Message-ID: <20141107163836.GB5586@leverpostej>
Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:38:36 +0000
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@....com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Copy register_persistent_clock() to arm64
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:24:19PM +0000, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:16:03AM +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 11/06/2014 05:25 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> >> > +Stephen
> >> >
> >> > This patch is for tegra20_timer that uses register_persistent_clock().
> >> > I did not find any way to share the same arch code for arm/arm64.
> >> >
> >> > Actually this register_persistent_clock() does not look arm specific
> >> > at all. Would it be better to move it somewhere outside of arch/?
> >>
> >> No CC to linux-tegra@ or the other Tegra maintainers?
> >>
> >> Yes, I think it'd be best not to have arch-specific APIs, or cut/paste
> >> the same code into multiple places.
> >
> > Agreed. This looks in no way architecture specific, and having this in
> > common code would be preferable to copying.
> 
> Where the code common for arm and arm64 should go?
> drivers/???/arm_timekeeping.c ?

I'd argue that this is in no way specific to ARM, and the current weak
functions live in kernel/time/timekeeping.c, so this should too.

Thanks,
Mark.
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