Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 14/10/2013 09:34, Uwe Kleine-König :
> Hello Linus, hello Ingo,
>
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König 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?

I second Uwe in his request (aka +1).

Thanks, bye,


> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1563370/
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Thomas Gleixner (1):
> >        clockevents: Sanitize ticks to nsec conversion
> >
> > Uwe Kleine-König (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-König            |
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> >
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