linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: extract elf

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:08:39 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: extract elf_hwcap use to
 arch-helper

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 02:14:13PM +0100, Andrew Murray wrote:
> Different mechanisms are used to test and set elf_hwcaps between ARM
> and ARM64, this results in the use of #ifdef's in this file when
> setting/testing for the EVTSTRM hwcap.
> 
> Let's improve readability by extracting this to an arch helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/arch_timer.h    | 13 +++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h  | 13 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 15 ++-------------
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

I assume this is going via Marc Z.

Will