linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v22 00/11] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch

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Message-ID: <20170328130552.GA8643@leverpostej>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:05:52 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jon Masters <jcm@...masters.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
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        Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
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        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 00/11] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT
 support in arm_arch_timer

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:34:12PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Thanks for your email
>  An hour ago, I just got some feedback from Lorenzo, will update my
> patchset ASAP according to his suggestion.
> 
> But I still need some feedback form Mark, I can see some progress here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arch-timer/gtdt
> 
> I guess I should rebase my patchset to his gtdt branch for v23.
> 
> So now, I am waiting for Mark's feedback to move on.

Sorry for the delay; I have not had the time to focus on this as I would
like to. I'm happy with patches 1-4, but from patch 5 onwards, there's
one change I'd like to see.

I'd prefer that mmio timer frame rame N was always stored at
arch_timer_mem::frame[N], rather than arch_timer_mem::frame[] being in
an arbitrary order. That will make arch_timer_mem_frame::frame_nr
redundant.

To allow arch_timer_mem::frame[] this to be sparse, I'm happy to have a
bool arch_timer_mem_frame::valid field that we set when probing each
frame. Then we don't need arch_timer_mem::num_frames.

This will make iterating over the frames far less confusing, and makes
it simple to detect when a frame number is erroneously reused.

Otherwise, I'm largely happy to pick the rest and apply any fixups
myself.

Thanks,
Mark.