linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tick/broadcast: Split __tick_broadcast_oneshot

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Message-ID: <20210601121351.GA27832@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Tue, 1 Jun 2021 13:13:52 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>, fweisbec@...il.com,
        john.stultz@...aro.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo@...gle.com, maz@...nel.org, mika.penttila@...tfour.com,
        sboyd@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tick/broadcast: Split
 __tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() into a helper

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:29:20PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, May 27 2021 at 12:56, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:35:03PM +0800, Xin Hao wrote:
> >> 
> >> 在 2021/5/27 下午4:22, Will Deacon 写道:
> >> > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:23:06PM +0800, Xin Hao wrote:
> >> > >       I  had backport you  tick/broadcast: Prefer per-cpu relatives patches,
> >> > > 
> >> > > but i did not get the true result,  the Wakeup Devices are all null, why?
> >> > Probably because you don't have any suitable per-cpu timers to act as a
> >> > wakeup. Do you have a per-cpu timer registered with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERCPU
> >> 
> >> Yes, you are right, but i want to know why the timer do not support 
> >> CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERCPU.
> >
> > I defer to Thomas on this one.
> 
> How should I know what kind of timers this hardware has?

Duh, sorry, I replied to the wrong question. I meant to defer the decision
about whether to print "<NULL>" if the wakeup timer is absent, or whether to
omit the line entirely.

I went with the former in the patches you queued as it's both consistent
with the rest of the code and probably (?) easier to parse.

Will