linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] clocksource: exynos_mct: fix for sleeping in atomic ctx handling cpu hotplug notif.

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Message-ID: <5565BC02.7010101@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 14:43:46 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	d.eppel@...sung.com
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, kgene@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, kyungmin.park@...sung.com,
	k.kozlowski@...sung.com, m.jabrzyk@...sung.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clocksource: exynos_mct: fix for sleeping in atomic
 ctx handling cpu hotplug notif.

On 05/25/2015 05:24 PM, Damian Eppel wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 13:18 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

[ ... ]

>> The code sounds very complex for what it is supposed to do.
>>
>> Perhaps I am missing something but you have more or less the same
>> functionality than the smp_twd timers and these ones don't look so complex.
>>
>> Could you please look at the smp_twd.c implementation ?
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> exynos_mct.c driver looks more complex as it supports two types of timer
> interrupts - private and shared peripheral interrupts (for exynos4412
> and exynos4210 accordingly). In smp_twd.c driver I can see only PPI type
> of irqs supported. SPI and PPI irqs differs slightly in setup - thus two
> different code paths appears in the driver in initialization and
> handling of CPU notifications. The fix is addressing issue that appears
> only for hardware using SPI irqs so it is hard to compare it to
> smp_twd.c.
> BTW, If we remove support for SPI irqs in exynos_mct.c it would look
> almost the same as smp_twd.c.

Ok, thanks.

I will have a deeper look this afternoon.

   -- Daniel


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