Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] clocksource: rework Atmel TCB timer driver

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Nov 08 2018 - 07:43:36 EST


On 2018-09-25 22:14:56 [+0200], Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 22/09/2018 13:29:48+0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > You say for rt the PIT is not suitable because of the shared irq but in
> > the driver, the interrupt is flagged as shared.
> >
>
> Well, it is not simply sharing the interrupt that is an issue, it is the
> mismatch between the PIT and the UART interrupt flags and that only
> happens when using preempt-rt.

This should also happen on !RT with the threadedirq command line switch.
The UART will be threaded and the PIT will not, and this is the problem.
So we need to split those or disable the UART. The other important thing
for RT is the higher resolution of the clocksource/clockevents device (I
don't know if this is part of the series or notâ).

I'm currently replacing the v6 with this v7 in my RT tree. What is the
status of this series upstream wise?

Sebastian