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From: Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin@stericsson.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/3] ARM: Allow machines to override __delay()
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:30:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9D6807.40800@stericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302047800-26720-3-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>

On 04/06/2011 01:56 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Some machines want to implement their own __delay() routine based
> on fixed rate timers. Expose functionality to set the __delay()
> routine at runtime. This should allow two machines with different
> __delay() routines to happily co-exist within the same kernel
> with minimal overhead.
>
> Russell expressed concern that using a timer based __delay()
> would cause problems when an iomapped device isn't mapped in
> prior to a delay call being made (see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/78543  for
> more info). We can sidestep that issue with this approach since
> the __delay() routine_should_  only be pointed to a timer based
> delay once the timer has been properly mapped. Up until that
> point __delay() and udelay() will use delay_loop() which is
> always safe to call.
>
> This patch is inspired by x86's delay.c
>

Tested-by: Mattias Wallin <mattias.wallin@stericsson.com>

Yours,
Mattias Wallin


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 23:56 [PATCHv5 0/3] Constant udelay() for SMP and non-SMP systems Stephen Boyd
2011-04-05 23:56 ` [PATCHv5 1/3] ARM: Translate delay.S into (mostly) C Stephen Boyd
2011-04-06  8:49   ` Mattias Wallin
2011-04-06 17:34     ` Stephen Boyd
2011-04-07  1:27     ` Saravana Kannan
2011-04-07  7:27       ` Mattias Wallin
2011-04-07  7:29   ` Mattias Wallin
2011-04-05 23:56 ` [PATCHv5 2/3] ARM: Allow machines to override __delay() Stephen Boyd
2011-04-07  7:30   ` Mattias Wallin [this message]
2011-04-05 23:56 ` [PATCHv5 3/3] ARM: Implement a timer based __delay() loop Stephen Boyd
2011-04-07  7:30   ` Mattias Wallin

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