Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] clocksource: sun5i: Add clock notifiers

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 03:55:20 EST


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > >+static int sun5i_rate_cb_clksrc(struct notifier_block *nb,
> > >+ unsigned long event, void *data)
> > >+{
> > >+ struct clk_notifier_data *ndata = data;
> > >+ struct sun5i_timer *timer = to_sun5i_timer(nb);
> > >+ struct sun5i_timer_clksrc *cs = container_of(timer,
> > >+ struct sun5i_timer_clksrc, timer);
> > >+
> > >+ switch (event) {
> > >+ case PRE_RATE_CHANGE:
> > >+ clocksource_unregister(&cs->clksrc);
> > >+ break;
> > >+
> > >+ case POST_RATE_CHANGE:
> > >+ clocksource_register_hz(&cs->clksrc, ndata->new_rate);
> > >+ break;
> >
> > Why clocksource_unregister couldn't be in the POST_RATE_CHANGE ?
>
> Wouldn't that leave a (small, I agree) window where the timer would
> run at a rate different to the one it has been registered with?

Ping?

Maxime

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