linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.4 062/115] ARM: dts: rockchip: disable arm-global-timer for rk3188

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Message-Id: <208E5E7C-3737-44B0-ACEB-5C3F20516EB0@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Mar 2018 02:19:56 +0300
From:   Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.4 062/115] ARM: dts: rockchip: disable arm-global-timer for rk3188

Hello, Sasha!

Following 2 patches must be applied together with the patch:
5e0a39d0f727b35c8b7ef56ba0724c8ceb006297 clocksource/drivers/rockchip_timer: Implement clocksource timer
627988a66aee3c845aa2f1f874a3ddba8adb89d9 ARM: dts: rockchip: Add timer entries to rk3188 SoC

Alexander.

> 4 марта 2018 г., в 1:31, Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com> написал(а):
> 
> From: Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 500d0aa918a2ea6bb918fee8adcf27dc2912bcd1 ]
> 
> The clocksource and the sched_clock provided by the arm_global_timer
> are quite unstable because their rates depend on the cpu frequency.
> 
> On the other side, the arm_global_timer has a higher rating than the
> rockchip_timer, it will be selected by default by the time framework
> while we want to use the stable rockchip clocksource.
> 
> Let's disable the arm_global_timer in order to have the rockchip
> clocksource selected by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> index 6399942f1840..0e5142b6e914 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3188.dtsi
> @@ -513,6 +513,7 @@
> 
> &global_timer {
> 	interrupts = <GIC_PPI 11 0xf04>;
> +	status = "disabled";
> };
> 
> &local_timer {
> -- 
> 2.14.1