[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] arm: pxa: use common timer functions

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Oct 10 01:25:44 CEST 2014


On Friday, October 10, 2014 at 01:00:38 AM, Andrew Ruder wrote:
> This patch moves pxa to the common timer functions added in commit
> 
>   8dfafdd - Introduce common timer functions <Rob Herring>
> 
> The (removed) pxa timer code (specifically __udelay()) could deadlock at
> the 32-bit boundary of get_ticks().  get_ticks() returned a 32-bit value
> cast up to a 64-bit value.  If get_ticks() + tmo in __udelay() crossed
> the 32-bit boundary, the while condition became unconditionally true and
> locked the processor.  Rather than patch the specific pxa issues, simply
> move everything over to the common code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andrew.ruder at elecsyscorp.com>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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