linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] microblaze/timer: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta

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Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2017 11:46:43 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
Cc:     Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] microblaze/timer: set ->min_delta_ticks and
 ->max_delta_ticks

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 04:47:11AM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 07 2017, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:45:28PM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/timer.c b/arch/microblaze/kernel/timer.c
> >> index 999066192715..545ccd46edb3 100644
> >> --- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/timer.c
> >> +++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/timer.c
> >> @@ -178,8 +178,10 @@ static __init int xilinx_clockevent_init(void)
> >>  				clockevent_xilinx_timer.shift);
> >>  	clockevent_xilinx_timer.max_delta_ns =
> >>  		clockevent_delta2ns((u32)~0, &clockevent_xilinx_timer);
> >> +	clockevent_xilinx_timer.max_delta_ticks = (u32)~0;
> >
> > Can you take the opportunity to fix the type (unsigned long) ?
> 
> Hmm, I personally think that it'd be better to leave the u32 there as it
> corresponds to the hardware's counter width?
> 
> clockevent_delta2ns()' latch argument has been of type unsigned long
> from the beginning and this might indicate that at least this
> driver's original author followed this line of reasoning...
> 
> OTOH, I think that u32 is equivalent to unsigned long on microblaze, so
> it doesn't matter much.
> 
> Does the above convince you or do you still want the

Yeah, I was nitpicking.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

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