Re: [PATCH v21 01/13] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: introduce two functions to get the frequency from mmio and sysreg.

[Fu Wei]

Hi Mark,

On 18 March 2017 at 02:05, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 02:50:03AM +0800, fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> +static u32 arch_timer_get_sysreg_freq(void)
>> +{
>> +     /*
>> +      * Try to get the frequency from the CNTFRQ of sysreg.
>> +      */
>> +     return arch_timer_get_cntfrq();
>> +}
>
> We already have arch_timer_get_cntfrq(), so I don't see the point in
> this wrapper.
>
>> +static u32 arch_timer_get_mmio_freq(void __iomem *cntbase)
>> +{
>> +     /*
>> +      * Try to get the frequency from the CNTFRQ of timer frame registers.
>> +      * Note: please verify cntbase in caller.
>> +      */
>> +     return readl_relaxed(cntbase + CNTFRQ);
>> +}
>
> Wrapping the MMIO read makes sense if we're going to do this in more
> than one place, so I'm happy with this wrapper.
>
> If you can s/arch_timer_get_mmio_freq/arch_timer_get_cntfrq/, and drop

sorry, May I guess that is
"s/arch_timer_get_mmio_freq/arch_timer_get_mmio_cntfrq/"
or
"s/arch_timer_get_mmio_freq/arch_timer_mem_get_cntfrq/"

which one do you prefer? :-)

> the comments, then this looks fine to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.



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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat