linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] NVIDIA Tegra clocksource driver improvements

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Message-ID: <20190604133355.GE29894@pdeschrijver-desktop.Nvidia.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:33:55 +0300
From:   Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
CC:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        "Jonathan Hunter" <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] NVIDIA Tegra clocksource driver improvements

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 09:59:38PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series primarily unifies the driver code across all Tegra SoC
> generations. In a result the clocksources are allocated per-CPU on
> older Tegra's and have a higher rating than the arch-timer where
> appropriate, the newer Tegra210 is getting support for microsecond
> clocksource and the driver's code is getting much cleaner.
> 
> The series was extensively tested on Tegra20 and Tegra30.
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> v4: In the comment to v3 Peter De Schrijver pointed out that arch-timer
>     isn't affected by DVFS changes and thus it is preferred over tegra-timer
>     on [T114, T210). Added new patch to address that: "Lower clocksource
>     rating for some Tegra's".
> 
>     Daniel Lezcano suggested that it will be worthwhile to rename driver's
>     source file as driver now covers more SoC generations than it initially
>     did. Hence the new "Rename timer-tegra20.c to timer-tegra.c" patch.
> 
> v3: Fixed compilation on ARM64. Turned out that it doesn't have the
>     delay-timer, thanks to Nicolas Chauvet for the report.
> 
>     Added new "Support COMPILE_TEST universally" patch for better
>     compile-test coverage.
> 
> v2: Rebased on recent linux-next. Now all of #ifdef's are removed from the
>     code due to the recent patch that generalized persistent clocksource.
> 
>     Couple other minor cosmetic changes.

Series Acked-By: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>