From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabled
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWS5JoXho97oxcavE_OFdv+tnr+da1WV_D7sOE_YbxQxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008154651.1901126-13-arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 5:48 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> Almost all machines use GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, so it feels wrong to
> require each one to select that symbol manually.
>
> Instead, enable it whenever CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK is disabled as
> a simplification. It should be possible to select both
> GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and LEGACY_TIMER_TICK from an architecture now
> and decide at runtime between the two.
>
> For the clockevents arch-support.txt file, this means that additional
> architectures are marked as TODO when they have at least one machine
> that still uses LEGACY_TIMER_TICK, rather than being marked 'ok' when
> at least one machine has been converted. This means that both m68k and
> arm (for riscpc) revert to TODO.
>
> At this point, we could just always enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
> rather than leaving it off when not needed. I built an m68k
> defconfig kernel (using gcc-10.1.0) and found that this would add
> around 5.5KB in kernel image size:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 3861936 1092236 196656 5150828 4e986c obj-m68k/vmlinux-no-clockevent
> 3866201 1093832 196184 5156217 4ead79 obj-m68k/vmlinux-clockevent
>
> On Arm (MACH_RPC), that difference appears to be twice as large,
> around 11KB on top of an 6MB vmlinux.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu | 1 -
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 13:16 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH 00/13] Clean up legacy clock tick users Linus Walleij
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