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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
	Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>,
	Joshua Thompson <funaho@jurai.org>, Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Clean up legacy clock tick users
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:18:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZedudw5VTSaQk3TRiROi87a_=ioqJGxN7Dxq7Qab34-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008154651.1901126-1-arnd@arndb.de>

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 5:47 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> When I created the patch removing CONFIG_ARCH_GETTIMEOFFSET,
> I also had a look at CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, which is
> selected by most, but not all, platforms today, each of the
> ones that lack it doing the timer tick slightly differently.
>
> The cleanups here make the old platforms a bit more
> consistent, in multiple ways:
>
> - rather than selecting GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS on modern
>   platforms, select LEGACY_TIMER_TICK on the old ones.
>
> - Hide some more of the internal implementation and only
>   provide a single common entry point for the timer tick,
>   which also makes the behavior more consistent.
>
> - Remove the m68k and arm specific infrastructure pieces
>   and call the common helper directly from each timer
>   interrupt function.
>
> I tested the series on m68k with the qemu q800 target
> platform, both with the legacy_timer_tick() implementation
> and after converting that to a periodic clockevent driver.

I am a big fan of this patch series:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Maybe the RFC patch can be kept in the sidelines but the
rest should be merged ASAP in my opinion, the kernel just
looks so much better after this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-12 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 15:46 [PATCH 00/13] Clean up legacy clock tick users Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 01/13] timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 22:18   ` Finn Thain
2020-10-10 20:31     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 02/13] ia64: convert to legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 03/13] ARM: rpc: use legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 04/13] parisc: " Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 05/13] m68k: coldfire: use legacy_timer_tick() Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 12:53   ` Greg Ungerer
2020-10-09 13:23     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 06/13] m68k: split heartbeat out of timer function Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 07/13] m68k: sun3/sun3c: use legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 08/13] m68k: m68328: use legacy_timer_tick() Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-12 15:30     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 20:33       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 09/13] m68k: change remaining timers to legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 10/13] m68k: remove timer_interrupt() function Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 11/13] timekeeping: remove xtime_update Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-12 13:37     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 20:44       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 12/13] timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabled Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [RFC 13/13] m68k: mac: convert to generic clockevent Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 22:21   ` Finn Thain
2020-10-10 18:52     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-15  1:18       ` Finn Thain
     [not found]         ` <CAK8P3a2ymv79j1edtJ983-VgjtxvT_6co7V0VRnHzcneW+0ZtA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-18  0:54           ` Finn Thain
     [not found]         ` <CAK8P3a3i6cum_9xGgsbxjXXvbRsP8Po5qLZ0Agb3c4gZTKC9GQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-23  9:24           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-25 12:45             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-11-06  2:52             ` Finn Thain
2020-11-16 23:27               ` Sam Creasey
2020-10-30  0:41           ` Finn Thain
2020-10-30 13:12             ` Greg Ungerer
2020-11-06  3:12               ` Finn Thain
2020-10-12 22:18 ` Linus Walleij [this message]

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