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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: disable the evtstrm via the cmdline
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:21:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160620082157.GC29165@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5766FBC6.6000405@linaro.org>

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:08:38PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 06/17/2016 03:43 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> [ Cc'ed tglx ]
> 
> >Disabling the eventstream can be useful for debugging and development
> >purposes
> 
> If it is for debugging and development, why upstream this change ?

Mainly because it's desirable to be able to debug systems remotely, on
machines that you don't have direct access to and where recompiling the
kernel isn't necessarily an option. There are plenty of "no*" kernel
parameters already that fall into a similar category.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17 13:43 [RFC PATCH] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: disable the evtstrm via the cmdline Will Deacon
2016-06-17 14:36 ` Mark Rutland
2016-06-20  1:28   ` Kefeng Wang
2016-06-19 20:08 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-06-20  8:21   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-06-20  8:34     ` Marc Zyngier
2016-06-20 12:59     ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-06-20 13:27       ` Mark Rutland
2016-06-20 13:30       ` Will Deacon
2016-06-20 13:44         ` Mark Rutland
2016-06-20 13:30       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-06-27 14:44         ` Daniel Lezcano

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