On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com> wrote: > > This patch has a very specific purpose: instructing the core code that > this timer will never stop ticking, ever. It is really targeted at > virtual machines, whose timer is backed by the host timer, even when the > VM is not running. > > Using it on actual hardware is may not be the best idea, specially in > the presence of PM.
And actually, the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag was added to support real hardware, so its not just limited to VMs. But that hardware does have to keep the lights on for the counter backing the clocksource, and I'm not sure how common it ever became. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
