linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clockevents: don't suspend/resume if unused

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:20:14 +0100
From:	Sylvain Rochet <sylvain.rochet@...secur.com>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clockevents: don't suspend/resume if unused

Hello Alexandre,


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:05:51AM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> There is no point in calling suspend/resume for unused
> clockevents as they are already stopped and disabled.
> 
> Furthermore, it can take some time to wait for some IPs to stop counting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
> Reported-by: Sylvain Rochet <sylvain.rochet@...secur.com>

Indeed, this is way better from what I did.


> +		if (dev->suspend && dev->mode != CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED)

I wonder if we should use > CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN
(or CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED || CLOCK_EVT_MODE_SHUTDOWN) instead of 
!CLOCK_EVT_MODE_UNUSED.


Sylvain
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