Re: [PATCH v22 00/11] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer

[Fu Wei]

Hi Mark,

On 28 March 2017 at 21:05, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:34:12PM +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Thanks for your email
>>  An hour ago, I just got some feedback from Lorenzo, will update my
>> patchset ASAP according to his suggestion.
>>
>> But I still need some feedback form Mark, I can see some progress here:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arch-timer/gtdt
>>
>> I guess I should rebase my patchset to his gtdt branch for v23.
>>
>> So now, I am waiting for Mark's feedback to move on.
>
> Sorry for the delay; I have not had the time to focus on this as I would
> like to. I'm happy with patches 1-4, but from patch 5 onwards, there's
> one change I'd like to see.
>
> I'd prefer that mmio timer frame rame N was always stored at
> arch_timer_mem::frame[N], rather than arch_timer_mem::frame[] being in
> an arbitrary order. That will make arch_timer_mem_frame::frame_nr
> redundant.
>
> To allow arch_timer_mem::frame[] this to be sparse, I'm happy to have a
> bool arch_timer_mem_frame::valid field that we set when probing each
> frame. Then we don't need arch_timer_mem::num_frames.
>
> This will make iterating over the frames far less confusing, and makes
> it simple to detect when a frame number is erroneously reused.
>
> Otherwise, I'm largely happy to pick the rest and apply any fixups
> myself.

Great thanks for your feedback!
I will follow your suggestion to improve my patches, then post it in a day.

So I will rebase my patchset on arch-timer/gtdt branch of your REPO
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=arch-timer/gtdt

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.



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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat