Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751452Ab3JNHe4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:34:56 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:49318 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778Ab3JNHey (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:34:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:34:37 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Nicolas Ferre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Pignat , Ludovic Desroches , Marc Kleine-Budde , kernel@pengutronix.de, John Stulz , Ronald Wahl , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core Message-ID: <20131014073436.GX10079@pengutronix.de> References: <1380052223-24139-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <5253D9A1.1080106@pengutronix.de> <20131008153147.GR10079@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20131008153147.GR10079@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:21e:67ff:fe11:9c5c X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2629 Lines: 65 Hello Linus, hello Ingo, On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > What's the status of this patch? > I pinged Thomas about it already via irc, but I didn't get a response up > to now. It would be great to get that into 3.12. To make it easy for > Thomas, here is a pull request that includes the fix and converts > at91rm9200 back to clockevents_config_and_register dropping one of the > workarounds for the fixed bug. > > The following changes since commit 4a10c2ac2f368583138b774ca41fac4207911983: > > Linux 3.12-rc2 (2013-09-23 15:41:09 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux.git tags/timer-for-tip > > for you to fetch changes up to b58c4b70121070f45eefa739ecbb58d57da1c4d9: > > ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register (2013-10-08 16:58:22 +0200) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The first patch in this pull request fixes an old integer rounding bug in the > timer core that was (and still is) worked around in a few arch's timer code. > The second patch drops such a work around now that the core is fixed. It would be nice to get that fix into 3.12, but Thomas stopped responding nearly a month ago---his last mail in this thread[1] dates back to September 20. Can one of you please take it directly? Thanks Uwe [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1563370/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Gleixner (1): > clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion > > Uwe Kleine-K?nig (1): > ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register > > arch/arm/mach-at91/at91rm9200_time.c | 7 ++-- > kernel/time/clockevents.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | > Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel > -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/