Re: [PATCH 4/7] arm64: arch_timer: introduce generic errata handling infrastructure
From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 05:14:48 EST
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:19:53PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently we have code inline in the arch timer probe path to cater for
> Freescale erratum A-008585, complete with ifdeffery. This is a little
> ugly, and will get worse as we try to add more errata handling.
>
> This patch refactors the handling of Freescale erratum A-008585. Now the
> erratum is described in a generic arch_timer_erratum_workaround
> structure, and the probe path can iterate over these to detect errata
> and enable workarounds.
>
> This will simplify the addition and maintenance of code handling
> Hisilicon erratum 161010101.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [Mark: split patch, correct Kconfig, reword commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> ---
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>