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Message-ID: <CADyBb7vziYMcAfk5TNOHoBCxi58jJypcTV_o2U75cLS-SRtEJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:13:14 +0800
From:	Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/9] acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver

Hi Rafael,

On 15 July 2016 at 20:11, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> On Friday, July 15, 2016 03:45:05 PM Fu Wei wrote:
>> Hi Rafael,
>>
>>
>> On 14 July 2016 at 05:43, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:30:37PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:53 PM,  <fu.wei@...aro.org> wrote:
>> >>> > From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > This patch adds support for parsing arch timer in GTDT,
>> >>> > provides some kernel APIs to parse all the PPIs and
>> >>> > always-on info in GTDT and export them.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > By this driver, we can simplify arm_arch_timer drivers, and
>> >>> > separate the ACPI GTDT knowledge from it.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
>> >>> > Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
>> >>> > ---
>> >>> >  drivers/acpi/Kconfig           |   5 ++
>> >>> >  drivers/acpi/Makefile          |   1 +
>> >>> >  drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig     |  15 ++++
>> >>> >  drivers/acpi/arm64/Makefile    |   1 +
>> >>> >  drivers/acpi/arm64/acpi_gtdt.c | 170 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>> >  include/linux/acpi.h           |   6 ++
>> >>> >  6 files changed, 198 insertions(+)
>> >>> >
>> >>> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>> >>> > index b7e2e77..1cdc7d2 100644
>> >>> > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>> >>> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
>> >>> > @@ -521,4 +521,9 @@ config XPOWER_PMIC_OPREGION
>> >>> >
>> >>> >  endif
>> >>> >
>> >>> > +if ARM64
>> >>> > +source "drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig"
>> >>> > +
>> >>> > +endif
>> >>> > +
>> >>> >  endif  # ACPI
>> >>> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> >>> > index 251ce85..1a94ff7 100644
>> >>> > --- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> >>> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> >>> > @@ -99,5 +99,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_EXTLOG)     += acpi_extlog.o
>> >>> >  obj-$(CONFIG_PMIC_OPREGION)    += pmic/intel_pmic.o
>> >>> >  obj-$(CONFIG_CRC_PMIC_OPREGION) += pmic/intel_pmic_crc.o
>> >>> >  obj-$(CONFIG_XPOWER_PMIC_OPREGION) += pmic/intel_pmic_xpower.o
>> >>> > +obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64)    += arm64/
>> >>> >
>> >>> >  video-objs                     += acpi_video.o video_detect.o
>> >>> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig
>> >>> > new file mode 100644
>> >>> > index 0000000..ff5c253
>> >>> > --- /dev/null
>> >>> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/arm64/Kconfig
>> >>> > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
>> >>> > +#
>> >>> > +# ACPI Configuration for ARM64
>> >>> > +#
>> >>> > +
>> >>> > +menu "The ARM64-specific ACPI Support"
>> >>> > +
>> >>> > +config ACPI_GTDT
>> >>> > +       bool "ACPI GTDT table Support"
>> >>>
>> >>> This should depend on ARM64.
>> >>>
>> >>> Also I wonder if it needs to be user-selectable?  Wouldn't it be
>> >>> better to enable it by default when building for ARM64 with ACPI?
>> >>>
>> >> It is currently selected in patch 9, in the watchdog driver's Kconfig
>> >> entry.
>> >
>> > Well, it still doesn't have to be user-selectable for that. :-)
>>
>> Actually it is also automatically selected by [PATCH v7 6/9]:
>
> Right.
>
> By user-selectable I mean "showing up in a Kconfig configurator tool".
>
> It just need not be visible in the configurator IMO.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
>> index 47352d2..71d5b30 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/Kconfig
>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config CLKSRC_OF
>>  config CLKSRC_ACPI
>>   bool
>>   select CLKSRC_PROBE
>> + select ACPI_GTDT if ARM64
>>
>>  config CLKSRC_PROBE
>>   bool
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> Not sure if I like that; maybe the watchdog driver should depend
>> >> on it instead ?
>> >
>> > If the watchdog is not the only user of it (and I don't think it is),
>> > it would be better to arrange things this way.
>> >
>>
>> There are two user:
>> (1) arm_arch_timer(which will select CLKSRC_ACPI if ACPI, then
>> CLKSRC_ACPI will select ACPI_GTDT if ARM64)
>> So arm_arch_timer will automatically selecte ACPI_GTDT if ARM64 && ACPI
>>
>> (2) sbsa_gwdt (which will select ACPI_GTDT if ACPI in [PATCH v7 9/9])
>> So sbsa_gwdt will automatically selecte ACPI_GTDT if ARM64 && ACPI &&
>> ARM_ARCH_TIMER
>>
>> So ACPI_GTDT is automatically selected by both of two users.
>>
>>
>> But like Timur said before:
>>
>> maybe we just "selecte ACPI_GTDT if ACPI" for ARM64, because ARM64
>> require GTDT if we use ACPI.
>
> Right.  That's the way to do it then and make sbsa_gwdt depend on it instead
> of selecting it.

OK, will do in my v8 patchset

>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>



-- 
Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat