Subject: [PATCH 2/8] clocksource: sun4i: Add clocksource and sched clock drivers

From: [email-masked] (Baruch Siach)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:46:49 +0300

Hi Maxime,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:35:58AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:02:34AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:16:55PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > +static u32 sun4i_timer_sched_read(void)
> > 
> > You commit message mentions "64 bits free running counter", but this one only 
> > returns 32 bit.
> 
> Yeah, the callback setup by setup_sched_clock is supposed to be
> returning a u32, and clocksource_mmio_init only accepts up to 32 bits as
> well, so I'm only using the lower 32bits of this 64 bits counter.
> 
> I'll amend the commit log to state this.

But using 64 bit counter for sched_clock is much easier that using 32 bit one. 
You can either wait for the rest of Stephen's patch set 
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.msm/4092) before adding 64 bit, 
or you can just make the trivial change to the now generic sched_clock code.

baruch

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