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<title>arm64: delete __cpuinit usage from all users</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2013-06-18T14:18:31+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/arm64 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  Currently arm64 does not have any __CPUINIT used in
assembly files.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/arm64 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  Currently arm64 does not have any __CPUINIT used in
assembly files.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T09:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-30T17:51:26+00:00</published>
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Switching between reading the virtual or physical counters is
problematic, as some core code wants a view of time before we're fully
set up. Using a function pointer and switching the source after the
first read can make time appear to go backwards, and having a check in
the read function is an unfortunate block on what we want to be a fast
path.

Instead, this patch makes us always use the virtual counters. If we're a
guest, or don't have hyp mode, we'll use the virtual timers, and as such
don't care about CNTVOFF as long as it doesn't change in such a way as
to make time appear to travel backwards. As the guest will use the
virtual timers, a (potential) KVM host must use the physical timers
(which can wake up the host even if they fire while a guest is
executing), and hence a host must have CNTVOFF set to zero so as to have
a consistent view of time between the physical timers and virtual
counters.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
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Switching between reading the virtual or physical counters is
problematic, as some core code wants a view of time before we're fully
set up. Using a function pointer and switching the source after the
first read can make time appear to go backwards, and having a check in
the read function is an unfortunate block on what we want to be a fast
path.

Instead, this patch makes us always use the virtual counters. If we're a
guest, or don't have hyp mode, we'll use the virtual timers, and as such
don't care about CNTVOFF as long as it doesn't change in such a way as
to make time appear to travel backwards. As the guest will use the
virtual timers, a (potential) KVM host must use the physical timers
(which can wake up the host even if they fire while a guest is
executing), and hence a host must have CNTVOFF set to zero so as to have
a consistent view of time between the physical timers and virtual
counters.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
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<title>ARM: convert arm/arm64 arch timer to use CLKSRC_OF init</title>
<updated>2013-04-11T20:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>rob.herring@calxeda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-10T23:27:51+00:00</published>
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This converts arm and arm64 to use CLKSRC_OF DT based initialization for
the arch timer. A new function arch_timer_arch_init is added to allow for
arch specific setup.

This has a side effect of enabling sched_clock on omap5 and exynos5. There
should not be any reason not to use the arch timers for sched_clock.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kukjin Kim &lt;kgene.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
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This converts arm and arm64 to use CLKSRC_OF DT based initialization for
the arch timer. A new function arch_timer_arch_init is added to allow for
arch specific setup.

This has a side effect of enabling sched_clock on omap5 and exynos5. There
should not be any reason not to use the arch timers for sched_clock.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;rob.herring@calxeda.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kukjin Kim &lt;kgene.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: move from arm_generic to arm_arch_timer</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T15:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-20T10:06:00+00:00</published>
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The arch_timer driver supports a superset of the functionality of the
arm_generic driver, and is not tied to a particular arch.

This patch moves arm64 to use the arch_timer driver, gaining additional
functionality in doing so, and removes the (now unused) arm_generic
driver. Timer-related hooks specific to arm64 are moved into
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
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The arch_timer driver supports a superset of the functionality of the
arm_generic driver, and is not tied to a particular arch.

This patch moves arm64 to use the arch_timer driver, gaining additional
functionality in doing so, and removes the (now unused) arm_generic
driver. Timer-related hooks specific to arm64 are moved into
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar &lt;santosh.shilimkar@ti.com&gt;
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