Re: [PATCH 0/8] MSM timer fixes and cleanups

[Stephen Boyd]

On 11/10/11 10:33, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:34:02AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> Currently the MSM timers use the same physical counter
>> for the clockevent and clocksource. This works as long
>> as the clocksource isn't stopped from ticking during normal
>> operation but unfortunately that isn't the case and the
>> clocksource is stopped when the clockevent is shutdown.
>> Even worse, switching the clocksource via sysfs at runtime will
>> hang the system.
>>
>> This series reorganizes the MSM timer code so that one counter
>> is only used for either a clocksource or a clockevent, and not 
>> both. In the process we reduce the lines of code and fix
>> a few long-standing bugs.
> How do you test these on the upstream kernel?  Booting successfully is
> probably a good starting point, though.
>

Booting is good because that means you're getting timer interrupts.
After that, do some sleep 10, 20, 30, etc. tests with a stopwatch to
make sure that time isn't completely off.

You can also check bogoMIPS and see what the before and after is. Beyond
that I suppose some kind of ntp or gettimeofday test would be good.

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