Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] clocksource: add J-Core timer/clocksource driver

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Oct 04 2016 - 06:27:33 EST


On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 06:10:39PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On 26/09/2016 23:07, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Ping. Is there anything that still needs to be changed for this driver
> > > to be acceptable?
> >
> > It is on my radar. I'm reviewing it.
> >
> > Can you elaborate the workaround mentioned in the changelog. I have been
> > digging into the lkml@ thread but it is not clear if the issue is
> > related to the time framework, the driver itself or whatever else. Can
> > you clarify that ?
>
> Do you have comments on any remaining issues other than this
> workaround? If not I don't mind removing the workaround and trying to
> solve the issue separately later. Let me know and either way I'll
> submit a v8.

One question of interest to me is whether this patchset prevents the
RCU CPU stall warnings that you are seeing.

Thanx, Paul