linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: rockchip: Make the driver more readability and compatible

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:43:44 +0200
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Caesar Wang <caesar.upstream@...il.com>
Cc:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Caesar Wang <wxt@...k-chips.com>,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: rockchip: Make the driver more readability and compatible

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2015, 17:28:10 schrieb Caesar Wang:
> >> The problem was different semantics of dsb on btw arm32 and arm64,
> >> Here we can convert the dsb with insteading of dsb(sy).
> > 
> > What happens to ARM32 then ?
> 
> The dsb() is ok for ARM32, the ARM32/64 are OK if we can convert the
> dsb() to dsb(sy).
> I believe all drivers with 'dsb()' have same issue on ARM64 platform.

correct ... I read this up in the ARM docs 2 days ago too for something.

The "sy" param is the default, which you are allow to omit, so on arm32 dsb() 
and dsb(sy) are the same.


Heiko
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