From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:03:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ARM: 7674/1: smp: Avoid dummy clockevent being preferred over real hardware clock... 
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3680^2~884^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7db706;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

ARM: 7674/1: smp: Avoid dummy clockevent being preferred over real hardware clock-event

With recent arm broadcast time clean-up from Mark Rutland, the dummy
broadcast device is always registered with timer subsystem. And since
the rating of the dummy clock event is very high, it may be preferred
over a real clock event.

This is a change in behavior from past and not an intended one. So
reduce the rating of the dummy clock-event so that real clock-event
device is selected when available.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 31644f1978d5..79078edbb9bc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static void __cpuinit broadcast_timer_setup(struct clock_event_device *evt)
 	evt->features	= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT |
 			  CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC |
 			  CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY;
-	evt->rating	= 400;
+	evt->rating	= 100;
 	evt->mult	= 1;
 	evt->set_mode	= broadcast_timer_set_mode;