Re: [PATCH] arm: remove unused code in delay.S

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 16:21:32 EST


Hello.

Steve Chen wrote:

+config OLD_CPU_DELAY
+ depends on CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T
+ bool "Accurate delays for some older CPUs"
+ def_bool n
+ help
+ Try enable this if observing longer than expected delays and need
+ more accuracy. May cause instability in some CPUs.
+
There is still this uncertain "accurate" in the text. Why don't just

+ bool "Different delay() code for some older CPUs"

Sounds good. I also update text under help to better quantify
"accuracy". Updated patch below. Separately, as Russel pointed out,
this should only be done by experienced people, so we even bother with
this patch since the only people should touch this are the people who
knows all the details.

Document #if 0 code block in delay.S and make it selectable for compile.

Signed-off-by: Steve Chen <schen@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

arch/arm/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm/lib/delay.S | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index aef63c8..ca8d535 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -813,6 +813,14 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_460075
ACTLR register. Note that setting specific bits in the ACTLR
register
may not be available in non-secure mode.
+config OLD_CPU_DELAY
+ depends on CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T
+ bool "Different delay() code for some older CPUs"
+ def_bool n
+ help
+ Try enable this if observing longer than expected delays. This code

Only "enabling"... ;-)

WBR, Sergei


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