Re: [PATCH] clocksource: em_sti: Set cpu_possible_mask to fix SMPbroadcast

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Wed Sep 04 2013 - 04:44:29 EST


On 09/04/2013 10:37 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> [ Droped johnstultz@xxxxxxxxxx CC, the address seems to bounce

The address is john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx

> Added Daniel Lezcano CC, I believe he handles clocksource these days ]

Right.

> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 05:01:51PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>> From: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Update the STI driver by setting cpu_possible_mask to make EMEV2
>> SMP work as expected together with the ARM broadcast timer.
>>
>> This breakage was introduced by:
>>
>> f7db706 ARM: 7674/1: smp: Avoid dummy clockevent being preferred over real hardware clock-event
>>
>> Without this fix SMP operation is broken on EMEV2 since no
>> broadcast timer interrupts trigger on the secondary CPU cores.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I will let this sit for a few days to see if there is any further feedback.
>
>> ---
>>
>> Thanks to feedback from Stephen Boyd this is is a reworked version of:
>> [PATCH] clocksource: em_sti: Adjust clock event rating to fix SMP broadcast
>>
>> drivers/clocksource/em_sti.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- 0001/drivers/clocksource/em_sti.c
>> +++ work/drivers/clocksource/em_sti.c 2013-09-04 16:51:42.000000000 +0900
>> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static void em_sti_register_clockevent(s
>> ced->name = dev_name(&p->pdev->dev);
>> ced->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT;
>> ced->rating = 200;
>> - ced->cpumask = cpumask_of(0);
>> + ced->cpumask = cpu_possible_mask;
>> ced->set_next_event = em_sti_clock_event_next;
>> ced->set_mode = em_sti_clock_event_mode;
>>
>>


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