Hi Matthias,
just a few suggestions below. Nothing serious.
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 07:12PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> This patch adds a clock source and clock event for the timer found
> on the Mediatek SoCs.
>
> The Mediatek General Porpose Timer block provides five 32 bit timers and
> one 64 bit timer.
>
> Two 32 bit timers are used:
> TIMER1: clock events supporting periodic and oneshot events
> TIMER2: clock source configured as a free running counter
It is pretty common, I think, to use the free running counter also as
sched_clock. You probably want to look into this, but that's just a
possible enhancement.
[...]
> +static void __init mtk_timer_init(struct device_node *node)
> +{
> + struct mtk_clock_event_device *evt;
> + struct resource res;
> + unsigned long rate = 0;
> + struct clk *clk;
> + int ret;
> + u32 val;
> +
> + evt = kzalloc(sizeof(*evt), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!evt)
> + panic("Can't allocate mtk clock event driver struct");
I'm not that sure about the A7s, but on Cortex-A9 there is also a global
timer which can be used for timing. And there might be other timing
options for this SOC too. Do you really want to panic?
Sören
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