Am 2014-09-29 13:51, schrieb Shawn Guo:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 06:20:10PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> Add the ARM Global Timer as clocksource/scheduler clock option and
>> use it as default scheduler clock. This leaves the PIT timer for
>> other users e.g. the secondary Cortex-M4 core. Also, the Global Timer
>> has double the precission (running at pheripheral clock compared to
>> IPG clock) and a 64-bit incrementing counter register. We still keep
>> the PIT timer as an secondary option in case the ARM Global Timer is
>> not available.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <ste...@agner.ch>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
>> index 11b2957..9482f58 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
>> @@ -633,12 +633,29 @@ config SOC_VF610
>>      bool "Vybrid Family VF610 support"
>>      select ARM_GIC
>>      select PINCTRL_VF610
>> -    select VF_PIT_TIMER
>>      select PL310_ERRATA_769419 if CACHE_L2X0
>>
>>      help
>>        This enable support for Freescale Vybrid VF610 processor.
>>
>> +choice
>> +    prompt "Clocksource for scheduler clock"
>> +    depends on SOC_VF610
>> +    default ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
>> +
>> +    config ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
>> +            bool "Use ARM Global Timer"
>> +            select CLKSRC_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK
>> +            help
>> +              Use the ARM Global Timer as clocksource
>> +
>> +    config VF_PIT_TIMER
>> +            bool "Use PIT timer"
>> +            help
>> +              Use SoC Periodic Interrupt Timer (PIT) as clocksource
>> +
>> +endchoice
>> +
> 
> As per the report from 0-DAY kernel build test (thanks), the change
> causes the following warning on a particular config.
> 
> warning: (ARCH_ROCKCHIP && ARCH_BCM_5301X) selects
> CLKSRC_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK which has unmet direct
> dependencies (ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER)
> 
> It looks the redefinition of ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER is the cause for that
> warning.  I think it's more safer to use new config symbols for choosing
> the clocksource device for VF610.  I propose the following change to fix
> the warning.  If there is no objection, I will squash it into the
> original commit soon.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
> index 9482f5837b7e..e26b0fdd72db 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
> @@ -641,16 +641,18 @@ config SOC_VF610
>  choice
>         prompt "Clocksource for scheduler clock"
>         depends on SOC_VF610
> -       default ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
> +       default VF_USE_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
>  
> -       config ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
> +       config VF_USE_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
>                 bool "Use ARM Global Timer"
> +               select ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER
>                 select CLKSRC_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK
>                 help
>                   Use the ARM Global Timer as clocksource
>  
> -       config VF_PIT_TIMER
> +       config VF_USE_PIT_TIMER
>                 bool "Use PIT timer"
> +               select VF_PIT_TIMER
>                 help
>                   Use SoC Periodic Interrupt Timer (PIT) as clocksource

I thought that Kconfig actually allowed to define a config symbol twice.
But maybe this is not a good idea with dependencies (depends on
SOC_VF610 on the choice level...?).

Thx Shawn, sorry about that.

Acked-by: Stefan Agner <ste...@agner.ch>
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