linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] dt-bindings: Correct RISC-V's timebase-frequency

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Date:   Wed, 8 Aug 2018 08:44:41 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, atish.patra@....com,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] dt-bindings: Correct RISC-V's timebase-frequency

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:50 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>
> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
>
> Someone must have read the device tree specification incorrectly,
> because we were putting timebase-frequency in the wrong place.  This
> corrects the issue, moving it from
>
> / {
>         cpus {
>                 timebase-frequency = X;
>         }
> }
>
> to
>
> / {
>         cpus {
>                 cpu@0 {
>                         timebase-frequency = X;
>                 }
>         }
> }
>
> This is great, because the timer's frequency should really be a per-cpu
> quantity on RISC-V systems since there's a timer per CPU.  This should
> lead to some cleanups in our timer driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.txt | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>