linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 06/13] m68k: Drop ARCH_USES

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Date:   Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:29:46 +1300
From:   Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
To:     Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Stephen N Chivers <schivers@....com.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Philip Blundell <philb@....org>,
        Joshua Thompson <funaho@...ai.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 06/13] m68k: Drop ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET

Hi Finn,

Am 12.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Finn Thain:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> Hi Finn,
>>
>> Thanks for your patch!
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:46 AM Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au> wrote:
>>> The functions that implement arch_gettimeoffset are re-used by
>>> new clocksource drivers in subsequent patches.
>>
>> Disabling this first affects functionality during bisection, right?
>>
>
> It means that all platforms have to use the 'jiffies' clocksource.

So all that happens is timer granularity drops to 10ms, then gets 
restored by the later patches?

I doubt that would be a large enough regression to matter for bisection, 
but the way you reuse the arch_gettimeoffset() code for the new 
read_clock() functions makes reordering of this patch to the end of the 
series impossible.

Best you can don, under the circumstances.

Cheers,

	Michael