Re: [PATCH] sparc32, leon: Remove separate "ticker" timer for SMP

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From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:53:28 +0200

> This reduces the need from two timers to one timer.
> 
> Moreover, without this patch, when the "ticker" timer triggers timer_cs_read via
> tick_periodic it reads the value of the usual timer it can get an wrapped timer
> value without timer_cs_internal_counter having been updated leading to the clock
> going backwards. This effectively hangs one cpu that gets stuck in
> update_wall_time with an offset slightly smaller than 0xffffffffffffffff.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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