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Message-ID: <0d051de8-35a9-61bd-5ac0-7180f19f7c01@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:17:58 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Direcly assign
 set_next_event workaround

On 08/04/2019 17:49, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When a given timer is affected by an erratum and requires an
> alternative implementation of set_next_event, we do a rather
> complicated dance to detect and call the workaround on each
> set_next_event call.
> 
> This is clearly idiotic, as we can perfectly detect whether
> this CPU requires a workaround while setting up the clock event
> device.
> 
> This only requires the CPU-specific detection to be done a bit
> earlier, and we can then safely override the set_next_event pointer
> if we have a workaround associated to that CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>

Do you want me to take the patch ?

Otherwise:

Acked-by; Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>


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