Re: [PATCH v2 18/20] mips: csrc-r4k: Decrease r4k-clocksource rating if CPU_FREQ enabled

From: Serge Semin
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 17:13:15 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:40:24PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:59:26PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > I think there is a misunderstanding here. In this patch I am not enabling
>
> you are right, I've missed the fact, that this also needs to be enabled
> in TLB entries. Strange that MIPS added the enable bit while R10k simply
> do uncached acclerated, whenever TLB entry selects it.
>
> > If there is no misunderstanding and you said what you said, that even enabling
> > the feature for utilization might be dangerous, let's at least leave the
> > MIPS_CONF_MM, MIPS_CONF_MM_FULL and MIPS_CONF_MM_SYS_SYSAD fields
> > definition in the "arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h" header. I'll use
> > them to enable the write-merge in my platform code.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I withdraw my concerns and will apply the patch as is.

Great! Thanks.

-Sergey

>
> Thomas.
>
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