linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] clocksource/arch_timer: Errata workaround infrastructure rework

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Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:15:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>,
        Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
        Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        dann frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] clocksource/arch_timer: Errata workaround
 infrastructure rework

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 18:27, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Are you happy to take the arch_timer patches above? If yes, Marc can
> > create a common branch with the first 5 patches which I will merge in
> > the arm64 tree. You can then pull the whole series into your tree.
> 
> Hi Catalin,
> 
> I'm fine with the merge process you are proposing. But before going
> forward, I would like to wait a bit in order to give the opportunity to
> Thomas to review the patchset.

I'm fine with that. It's sad that we need to have a workaround framework
for dealing with this, but silicon tinkerers seem to compete on providing
the most broken implementation of an _architected_ timer.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>