Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:42:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Store reg field within struct clocksource |
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > The basic cause of this problem is the ____cacheline_aligned annotation > which effectively prevents wrapping struct clocksource to provide > implementation specific data. > > Maybe your idea is that struct clocksource should be bloated with all > implementation specific data in the long term?
Certainly not. That mmio use case is sane enough, but you are right, that we should try to lift that ____cacheline_aligned restriction.
We have 77 instances of static struct clocksource declaration...
Thanks,
tglx
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