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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: riscv_timer: Provide sched_clock
To:     Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
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From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 15:53:11 +0100
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On 03/12/2018 15:50, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:29 PM Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/12/2018 13:35, Anup Patel wrote:
>>> Currently, we don't have a sched_clock registered for RISC-V systems.
>>> This means Linux time keeping will use jiffies (running at HZ) as the
>>> default sched_clock.
>>>
>>> To avoid this, we explicity provide sched_clock using RISC-V rdtime
>>> instruction (similar to riscv_timer clocksource).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
>>
>> Hi Anup,
>>
>> the GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK dependency in the Kconfig is missing.
> 
> Sure, will do.
> 
> I also have another patch to select GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK
> for CONFIG_RISCV. Should I squash that patch with this patch??

I prefer the riscv config option to be merged via the riscv tree.


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