linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 12/13] arm, tile: turn off timer tick for oneshot

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Date:   Fri, 3 Nov 2017 13:36:14 -0400
From:   Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 12/13] arm, tile: turn off timer tick for
 oneshot_stopped state

On 11/3/2017 1:18 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:04:51PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> index fd4b7f684bd0..61ea7f907c56 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
>> @@ -722,6 +722,8 @@ static void __arch_timer_setup(unsigned type,
>>   		}
>>   	}
>>   
>> +	clk->set_state_oneshot_stopped = clk->set_state_shutdown;
> AFAICT, we've set up this callback since commit:
>
>    cf8c5009ee37d25c ("clockevents/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Implement ->set_state_oneshot_stopped()")
>
> ... so I don't beleive this is necessary, and I think this change can be
> dropped.

Thanks, I will drop it.  I missed the semantic merge conflict there.

I extracted the arch/tile specific part of the change and just pushed it 
through
the tile tree.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies
http://www.mellanox.com