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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 01/10] clocksource: add generic dummy timer driver
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:03:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130322180305.GB1436@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514B4DBD.4060403@codeaurora.org>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:13:17PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 03/21/13 11:09, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > I've just been trying to test the dummy timer, and realised it's broken, as it
> > registers a cpu notifier from a device_initcall (after SMP's been brought up),
> > and doesn't ensure all active CPUs have been set up. Evidently no-one else has
> > attempted to test it thus far, and I'm not able to throughly test it at the
> > moment.
> 
> Would it be sufficient to register as a pre-smp initcall?

I've looked a bit further into the problem, and I believe using early_initcall
will make it work as well as the current arm-specific dummy timers work with a
rating of 100 (this means the recent patch lowering the rating broke tc2 as
explained below).

I've spent the last few hours trying to get the dummy_timer driver working on
tc2 with the sp804 as the broadcast source (with architected timer support
disabled). It turns out that having dummy timer's rating so low means that it
won't be selected as the tick device on cpu0 in preference to the sp804, and
thus won't push the sp804 out of that spot (allowing it to become the broadcast
source). This leads to boot stalling.

Jumping the dummy_timer's rating up would fix this, but that doesn't seem
great. Registering the dummy before all other clocks would also fix this (I
tried calling dummy_timer_register from time_init), but I can't see a way to do
that while keeping the driver self-contained.

Thanks,
Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-13 18:17 [PATCHv3 00/10] Remove ARM local timer API Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 01/10] clocksource: add generic dummy timer driver Stephen Boyd
2013-03-21 18:09   ` Mark Rutland
2013-03-21 18:13     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-22 18:03       ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2013-03-25 16:49         ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-25 18:00           ` Mark Rutland
2013-03-25 20:47             ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-26 15:26               ` Mark Rutland
2013-03-26  2:14             ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-26 11:28               ` Mark Rutland
2013-04-05  1:46                 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 02/10] ARM: smp: Remove duplicate dummy timer implementation Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 03/10] ARM: smp_twd: Divorce smp_twd from local timer API Stephen Boyd
2013-03-28 15:22   ` Mark Rutland
2013-03-28 20:09     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-04-02  8:41       ` Mark Rutland
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 04/10] ARM: OMAP2+: Divorce " Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 05/10] ARM: EXYNOS4: Divorce mct " Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 06/10] ARM: PRIMA2: Divorce timer-marco " Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 07/10] ARM: msm: Divorce msm_timer " Stephen Boyd
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 08/10] clocksource: time-armada-370-xp: Fix sparse warning Stephen Boyd
2013-03-20 17:06   ` Gregory CLEMENT
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 09/10] clocksource: time-armada-370-xp: Divorce from local timer API Stephen Boyd
2013-03-20 17:09   ` Gregory CLEMENT
2013-03-20 17:20     ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-20 17:26       ` Gregory CLEMENT
2013-03-20 17:44         ` Gregory CLEMENT
2013-03-20 18:00           ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-20 17:21     ` Gregory CLEMENT
2013-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCHv3 10/10] ARM: smp: Remove " Stephen Boyd

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