linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Store reg field within struct clocksource

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Message-ID: <564DC368.2030104@sigmadesigns.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:41:12 +0100
From:	Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mans Rullgard <mans@...sr.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Sebastian Frias <sebastian_frias@...madesigns.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Store reg field within struct clocksource

On 19/11/2015 12:21, Russell King wrote:

> When I wrote the MMIO clocksource implementation, there was no
> ____cacheline_aligned on struct clocksource, and the arrangement I came
> to for the structure put the 'reg' and 'read' within the same cache line
> (note that the MMIO clocksource pre-dates Thomas' rearrangement of struct
> clocksource and the addition of the cache line alignment.)  The original
> layout did not have any padding gaps.

For the record, I pointed out the chronology in a previous discussion.
But Thomas didn't comment at the time :-(

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/402968/focus=403604

Mason wrote:
> Oh and while I have your attention ;-) I have alignment-related
> questions about clocksource_mmio_init() (commit 442c8176d2) wrt
> Thomas Gleixner's 369db4c952 patch. (I think the two patches
> do not play nice.)

Regards.

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