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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:44:05 -0700
From: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] clocksource: new RISC-V SBI timer driver
On 7/27/18 7:38 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:51:56AM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
>> Should we follow the same prefix for these functions?
>> either timer_riscv* or riscv_timer* ?
>>
>> Apologies for overlooking this in my timer patch as wel
>
> riscv_timer_* sounds saner to me, I can update that.
>
Thanks.
>>> + struct clock_event_device *evdev = this_cpu_ptr(&riscv_clock_event);
>>> +
>>
>> The comment about the purpose of clearing the interrupt in the original
>> patch is removed here. If that's intentional, it's fine.
>>
>> I thought having that comment helps understanding the distinction between
>> clearing the timer interrupt in SBI call & here.
>
> Yes, that was intentional. But given that I don't even understand why
> not using an ABI for architectural interrupt source enable/disable maybe
> I'm confused and should revisit that decision.
>
I tried adding a new SBI call to disable the interrupts. However, I
realized that it is not recommended to change the SBI unless absolutely
required.
Here is the PR & following discussion.
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-pk/pull/108
Regards,
Atish
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