Re: [PATCH v3 00/18] clocksource/arch_timer: Errata workaround infrastructure rework

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Apr 07 2017 - 04:17:27 EST


On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 18:27, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Are you happy to take the arch_timer patches above? If yes, Marc can
> > create a common branch with the first 5 patches which I will merge in
> > the arm64 tree. You can then pull the whole series into your tree.
>
> Hi Catalin,
>
> I'm fine with the merge process you are proposing. But before going
> forward, I would like to wait a bit in order to give the opportunity to
> Thomas to review the patchset.

I'm fine with that. It's sad that we need to have a workaround framework
for dealing with this, but silicon tinkerers seem to compete on providing
the most broken implementation of an _architected_ timer.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>